Quotes about new-york
new-york past self
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New York, and Yemen - suggest to our terrorist enemies that it was wrong and unwise to kill reasonable and affable people, or did the easy killing imply that self-absorbed and pampered Lotus-eaters would not much care who or how many were butchered as long as it was within reasonable numbers and spread out over time? Victor Davis Hanson
new-york two language
I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English! Vicki Baum
new-york believe mean
I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here. Vicente Fox
new-york autumn doe
Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting? Vernon Duke
new-york library stones
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. Robert Bloch
new-york cities people
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do. Robert Benchley
new-york television body
One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all. Robert Bork
new-york home past
For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it," they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it. Robert Benchley
new-york children central-park
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. Robert Benchley
new-york nice littles
Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l. Rita Rudner
new-york night cities
Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does. Rick Kennedy
new-york broadway
I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York. Richard Madden
new-york team men
I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that. Richard Masur
new-york practice riding
Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up. Richard Masur
new-york guy cost
Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing. Richard Engel
new-york father years
I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it. Renee Fleming
new-york lunch bars
Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.
new-york growing-up book
People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying. Thornton Wilder
new-york paris league
When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court. Thomas P. Campbell
new-york work acting
I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse. Thomas F. Wilson
new-york school sixth-grade
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York. Sami Gayle
new-york kids years
I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.' Samm Levine
new-york profound today
Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council. Tom Lantos
new-york nice holiday
My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It's nice. Tom Felton
new-york couple august
Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people. Tom Felton
new-york jewels cities
I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that. Tom Ford
new-york cities exotic
What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City. Steve Reich
new-york doe born
All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground. Steve Reich
new-york stories
I'm a New York story. Steve Madden
new-york acceptance talking
I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about. Steve Forbert
new-york thinking people
To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had. Steve Harvey
new-york believe writing
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't. Steve Harvey
new-york growing-up different
I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground. Stephon Marbury