Quotes of York - somelinesforyou

“ New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. ”

- David Letterman

“ Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. ”

- David Letterman

“ I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified. ”

- Anita Weiss

“ In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space. ”

- Judith Stone

“ In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York. ”

- Harry Ruby

“ New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. ”

- Harry Hershfield

“ New York: A third-rate Babylon. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. ”

- Russell Baker

“ There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angles. ”

- Neil Simon

“ Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer. ”

- Donna Summer

“ When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris … no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. ”

- Orville Wright

“ I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal — monotonous. ”

- Jasper Johns

“ A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. ”

- Edith Wharton

“ Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks. ”

- Joni Mitchell

“ Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe. ”

- Gail Parent

“ I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. ”

- Lewis H. Lapham

“ If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple. ”

- Bernardo Bertolucci

“ If you're not in New York, you're camping out. ”

- Thomas E. Dewey

“ I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. ”

- Michael Douglas

“ I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ In Boston they ask, "How much does he know?" In New York, "How much is he worth?" In Philadelphia, "Who were his parents?". ”

- Mark Twain

“ New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. ”

- Johnny Carson

“ New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. ”

- Neil Simon

“ New York, the nation's thyroid gland. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores. ”

- Thomas Wolfe

“ One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. ”

- Thomas Wolfe
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