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York Quotes (page 11)

Angela Carter quote: "Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New..."
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. Angela Carter
It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians. Nora Roberts
Diane von Furstenberg quote: "New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable."
New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable. Diane von Furstenberg
Charles M. Schulz quote: "Little brothers are the New York Mets of life!"
Little brothers are the New York Mets of life! Charles M. Schulz
It was a dark afternoon, threatening rain and the end of the world, and done in that particularly gloomy gray in which only New York afternoons indulge. A breeze was crying down the streets, whisking along battered newspapers and pieces of things, and little lights were pricking out all the windows- it was so desolate that one was sorry for the tops of sky-scrapers lost up there in the dark green and gray heaven. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pearl S. Buck quote: "As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its..."
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. Pearl S. Buck
Jimmy Breslin quote: "When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere."
When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere. Jimmy Breslin
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. That seems to be hopeless; once you see that you lose all hope. Friedrich August von Hayek
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on..."
It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb! Jeffrey Eugenides
Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted. Douglas Adams
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhere far across gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East... Jack Kerouac
The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads? in the end? to the best within us. Jesse Owens
Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. Kenneth Tynan
Jonathan Lethem quote: "She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek..."Don't do..."
She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek..."Don't do that", I said. "You just met me. This is New York. Jonathan Lethem
It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station. As he paced the platform, waiting for the Washington express, he remembered that there were people who thought there would one day be a tunnel under the Hudson through which the trains of the Pennsylvania railway would run straight into New York. They were of the brotherhood of visionaries who likewise predicted the building of ships that would cross the Atlantic in five days, the invention of a... Edith Wharton

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