579 Quotes About New-york-city

The promise that attracted me to move is the idea that you can come to New York and be surrounded by the people who are the best at what they do in many different fields. On that front, I think it delivers. Working your way around the city you really do run into a disproportionate number of really interesting people. That’s almost what you pay your taxes for, even if you think it’s a little crazy to pay that much to live here.

Everything hurts. People are talking in the halls, but no one seems to be evacuating the building. This is the nature of New York City: alarms go off so often that no one wants to respond to them until things start burning down or blowing up in front of their eyes.

Cuando la existencia se presenta tan desmesuradamente exultante, esto se llama Nueva York. (...) ciudad que desplaza el corazón del pecho a la sien sobre la cual apuntaba permanentemente el revólver del placer: «Exulta o muérete».

As we made our way across town, through the seedy parts of Hollywood, over the Sunset Strip, I found myself depressed about how unseemly Los Angeles had gotten since I'd left. It was similar to Manhattan in that regard. The decades had not been good to it.

Upstate New York is anywhere north of New York City.

If you take yourself too seriously, no one will. But if you don't take yourself seriously enough, no one else will either.

A man can paint himself into a corner, without actually realizing he's painting himself into a corner. Or maybe he realizes it but doesn't know how to get himself out of the corner. He wants things to change but doesn't know how to make them change. He hears only his own voice in his ears, telling him he can't win, doesn't deserve to win. Or he hears only negative voices telling him he can't have more, be more.

Now I got these diaries that have the greatest hero a writer needs, this crazy fucking New York.

You and I. We are both immigrants. We both know it is hard to find your place in this world. You want to make your life better, work hard in country that is not your own - you make new life, new friends, find new love. You get to become new person! But is never a simple thing, never without cost.