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York Quotes (page 20)

New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't. Jay-Z
Henry Miller quote: "My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience..."
My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American. Henry Miller
After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win. Janis Joplin
He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and caf, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon. F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them. Edith Wharton
Frank McCourt quote: "I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but..."
I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times. Frank McCourt
John Updike quote: "When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward..."
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. John Updike
Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the extension of the city began to assume a theoretic air, where poplars grew beside the pavement (when there was one), and mingled their shade with the steep roofs of desultory Dutch houses, and where pigs and chickens disported themselves in the gutter. These elements of rural picturesqueness have now wholly departed from New York street scenery; but they were to be found within the memory of... Henry James
Irwin Shaw quote: "Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their..."
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Irwin Shaw
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here."He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's... Nicholas Sparks
Don DeLillo quote: "The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how..."
The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. Don DeLillo
Now is the winter of our discontent. Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house. In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. William Shakespeare
Damon Runyon quote: "New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship..."
New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush. Damon Runyon
We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart Orhan Pamuk
New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world. Betty Smith

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