144 Quotes About Nyc
- Author Joan Rivers
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I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.
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- Author Joan Rivers
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The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy…
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- Author Gary "Gunz" Govich
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This was a quarrel they did not need | It was one they knew they could never win. Beat us with a bat and we come back with Jiggers | Stick us with a knife and we bring the heaters | Plug one of us, and you'd better murder us all. We were the authentic spectacle, and the fact they left with their lives intact, no bones broken, or a limb missing, was miracle enough.
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- Author A.D. Aliwat
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The Empire State Building is a lady. She’s like the queen in chess, the most powerful piece. She’s like America.
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- Author Thomm Quackenbush
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A few hours remained until sunset, though time is never enough in the city. Even the quality of sunlight was alien, defused in the reflection of monoliths that would outshine primitive idols.
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- Author Kristen Henderson
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She was so cool, as she knew, ankles crossed at the puckered hem of granite gray sweatpants, and she also knew I was watching from the open doorof the B train—watching her pose in apparent comfort at the girder of this city thoroughfare.
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- Author Tod A
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Whatever my future held, I was certain it wouldn’t be borne on the bitter wind that blew along Broadway. It was waiting in a place where lime-green leaves burst forth from soil the color of night, where flowers bloomed under skies on fire, where pariah dogs fucked in the streets and wild monkeys called in the twilight—a place where women smiled and the moon smiled with them.
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- Author A.D. Aliwat
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New York City: the original internet.
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- Author Elizabeth Winder
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This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to the light as the shadows, with a limitless hunger for experience and knowledge, completely unafraid of life's more frightening opportunities.
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