Quotes about new-york
new-york cities desire
I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person. Fran Lebowitz
new-york cities borders
I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."
new-york home would-be
Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!
new-york thinking eight
The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Unless they own a hotel chain, I don't think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this.
new-york hate people
In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.
new-york car drug
I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
new-york thinking rooms
if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
new-york care tourism
I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.
new-york directors admission
I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
new-york jersey great-things
The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
new-york people would-be
If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.
new-york world medical
If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world. George Pataki
new-york america goal
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.
new-york people september-11
After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.
new-york cities trying
We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.
new-york believe goal
I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.
new-york humorous car
Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow. George Mikes
new-york cities ease
A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels. Jerzy Kosinski
new-york cities creative
I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is. Jemaine Clement
new-york character cities
New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city. Jeffrey Wright
new-york smell world
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
new-york nice coffee
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline. Gary Shteyngart
new-york one-day kevin
I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged. Gabriel Byrne
new-york mean past
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
new-york years two
I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi. Fred Armisen
new-york humor cities
Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. Fred Allen
new-york kids independent
I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio. Frank Rich
new-york peculiar world
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.
new-york sky crowds
All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky. George Jean Nathan
new-york people important
It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me. Chris Hedges
new-york men thinking
There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
new-york florida who-i-am
No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am. Chris Paul
new-york dad thinking
I like the idea of people having romantic tendencies towards a place they don't know that well. I think it's great. Why not? My dad's view of New York is very similar to Americans' when they talk about Ireland. Chris O'Dowd