3,292 Quotes About New-york
- Author Gwen Cooper
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To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.
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- Author A.D. Aliwat
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Living alone is so fucking expensive in New York.
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- Author A.D. Aliwat
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New York: the capital of the world, the center of the universe.
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- Author Georges Simenon
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The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.
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- Author Joseph O'Neill
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The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.
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- Author Sheridan Hay
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Drinnen ist das Arcade selbst wie eine große Stadt; wie eine Insel. Dass ein Buchladen ein solcher Ort sein kann, hat man sich immer erhofft, doch das Arcade ist der ursprüngliche Wunsch, der hinter solchen Hoffnungen steckt. Bei jenem ersten Besuch war es, als würde New York hier ganz real. Das Arcade stand für die Menschenmassen, es versinnbildlichte die Großstadt. Die Bücherstapel waren wie die wuselnden New Yorker, unsichtbar in ihren Gebäuden und doch spürbar, Bienen in ihrem Korb.
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- Author Alyssa Cole
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People bury the parts of history they don't like, pave it over like African cemeteries beneath Manhattan skyscrapers.
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- Author David Levithan
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I’m always jealous of people who get to be new to New York because they get to be amazed by it... I worry that it’s like living at a high elevation. I’ve gotten used to breathing here and every part of my body is tuned to living here.
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- Author A.D. Aliwat
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Anybody who’s ridden a bike through the streets of New York City knows yellow cabs deserve every bit of badness that comes their way, especially undercutting competition.
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