579 Quotes About New-york-city

The first Manhattanites didn't arrive with lofty ideals. They came--whether as farmer, tanner, prostitute, wheelwright, barmaid, brewer, or trader--because there was a hope for a better life. There was a distinct messiness to the place they created. But it was very real, and in a way, very modern.

New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.

I wanted to love the city. There is an electricity to the dullest day here that overpowers its clinging aroma. Friends have moved cityward, rarely seen again, each acting as though they relocated to Shangri-La, despite muggings and struggling.

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm

So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation

New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.

When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.