3,292 Quotes About New-york

He hasn't been in San Francisco for a number of years. He's looking forward to being in the city again. It's a town that knows how to have a good time, but without all the mess and craze of New York. San Francisco always does things with a touch of of class.

Speaking was a habit she'd gotten into years ago, in the distant past, and now that she'd stopped she felt no desire to start again. It was pointless anyway - all the blah-blah-blabbing and, still, no one understood each other.

I want to cry because I feel like it—the way children cry in the last row of seats—because I am not a man, not a poet, not a leaf,only a wounded pulse that probes the things of the other side.

Life is not a dream. Watch out! Watch out! Watch out!We fall down stairs and eat the moist earth,or we climb up to the snow's edge with the choir of dead dahlias.But there is no oblivion, no dream:raw flesh. Kisses tie mouthsin a tangle of new veinsand those who are hurt will hurt without restand those who are frightened by death will carry it on their shoulders.

What did it matter? New York would go on with or without her, the same as ever, just as loud and electric and raucous and bright. New York didn’t care that those were the last words Avery Fuller ever spoke.

It was the time of parched things,the wheat spear in the eye, the laminated cate,the time of tremendous, rusting bridgesand the deathly silence of cork.

Typical New Yorkers, forever determined to bring the world to them, as if they couldn't be bothered to leave their tiny island.

New York would no longer be a free-spirit city. Instead, it would be a free-market city.

That was what she loved about New York. That feeling of utter aliveness, a rush and flow of ruthless, furious energy. That New York belief that this was the center of the world, and God help you if you were anywhere else.