579 Quotes About New-york-city

People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn,that Bridge was too much for me.

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.