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“New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.”

Cities New York London Fantastic Restaurants New York City

“New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.”

Bits Cities Progress New York Picks Make Sense New York City Garbage Being A Woman

Author:Anna Quindlen

Source: Living Out Loud

“New York City has the most beautiful women.”

Beautiful Cities New York New York City Beautiful Women

Author:Jason Mraz

“New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.”

Stills Hard Cities New York Example New York City Cab

Author:Colson Whitehead

“New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and the brightest from everywhere.”

Energy Cities New York Very Good Fascinating New York City

Author:Juan Enriquez

“New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.”

Home Cities New York Hotel New York City Apartment

Author:Glenway Wescott

“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”

Artist Money Race Cities New York Greed New York City Cynical Stubborn Monument

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.”

Humans Mean Human Beings Cities New York Constant Evolve New York City Organisms Fluctuation Living Organisms

Author:Timothy Levitch

“New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.”

Cities New York Behavior Stupidity Desperate New York City Anxious Revenue Benign Carnivals

Author:Alec Baldwin

“New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.”

Country Hard Cities New York New York City

Author:Trace Adkins

“New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.”

Feels Littles Cities New York Studios Guilty New York City Apartment Locks

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“New York City is an absolute failure in the design of buildings that promote good human health.”

Design Health Failure Human Good City New Buildings Promote York

Author:Steven Magee

“New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.”

Heart Beautiful Cities Crazy New York My Heart Dear New York City Dear Friend Close To My Heart

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.”

Moments Might Chance Cities New York Filled New York City Changing Your Life Quirky Collision

Author:Hope Edelman

“New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.”

People Kind Left Cities New York Filled Get Away New York City Jersey New Jersey

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where the settlers came and busted out their ideas and put it down so there's nothing but great space in this great city.”

World

Author:Nas

“New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene now. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist today feels local and small. Social media feels now.”

World Today Artist Scene Social Media

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist feels local and small. Social media feels now.”

World Feels States Artist Social Cities Media New York Scene Social Media Locals Just One New York City Devoted Nyc

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs.”

Ifs Hands Left Pleasure Cities New York Tables New York City Salt Flavor Bangs Bucks Spices Loaded Waiter Indigestion Cholesterol Appetizers

Author:Leonore Fleischer

“New York City is my playground.”

Cities New York New York City Playgrounds

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.”

World Cities New York Threat Climate Climate Change Vulnerable New York City Cities In The World Keystones

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.”

Thinking Art Stills Cities New York Competition New York City

Author:Takashi Murakami

“New York City is the capital for Baseball, not just for the pros, but also for the kids throughout the city, as well. No matter who you root for, the Borough Cup is going to make every kid and community that participates a winner.”

Wells Matter Kids Community Cities New York Roots Baseball Cups Winner New York City

Author:Mark Teixeira

“New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.”

World Important Culture Cities Fashion New York Finance New York City Location

Author:Jared Kushner

“New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack.”

Play Kids Cities New York Balls Bars Cracks New York City Cheese Pits Chuck Chuck E Cheese

Author:Jon Stewart

“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.”

Persons Happens America Fighting Evil Lines Cities New York Picks Fortune Billions Likes Good And Evil New York City Mayors Starks

Author:Jeff Goodell

“New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.”

Wells Christian Fighting Cities Growing Up Growing New York West Hip Hop Rap Hips Indian Hops New York City Household Strict Trinidadians

Author:Phife Dawg

“New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Sports Levels Cities Talking Team New York Creation Optimism Recovery New York City

Author:Jonathan Mahler

“New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?”

Cities New York Internet Train Speed New York City Subway Getting High High Speed

Author:David Letterman

“New York City: the original internet.”

New York Internet Nyc Irl

Author:A.D. Aliwat

Source: In Limbo

“New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.”

World Cities Streets New York New York City Above And Below

Author:Nancy Pickard

Source: But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery

“New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.”

“New York congressmen have recently been plagued by a string of embarrassing scandals. Shirtless craigslist hunk Chris Lee, nonconsensual staff tickle monster, Eric Massa, naked texter Anthony Weiner, so this guy is now running to join those dubious ranks and win the Michael Grimm seat. And he`s campaigning on the promise that he`s too old to be too gross. And I`m not paraphrasing the campaign pledge.”

“New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.”

Way Real Shows Bits Term Realizing New York Handle Eras Poetic Hanging Out Cop License Cliche Englishmen Jargon Poetic License

Author:Theo James

“New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.”

Stars Born New York Critics Screens

Author:Barbra Streisand

“New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until we go away from her, and then we realize why we are restless. At home or away, we are homesick for New York not because New York used to be better and not because she used to be worse but because the city holds us and we don't know why.”

Knows Heart Doe Home Used Realizing Cities New York Used To Be Going Away Restless Homesickness Homesick Implants

Author:Maeve Brennan

Source: The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker

“New York doesn't buy stars, New York creates them.”

Stars New York

Author:Fred Lebow

“New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from.”

Care New York Empowerment Who You Are Women Empowerment Empowered Women New Hope Leia

Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.”

Way Doe Stills Different War Language Cities Century New York Edges Primaries Neighborhood Village Continents Alphabet

Author:Donald E. Westlake

Source: What's So Funny?

“New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.”

Book New York Broken Judgment Newspapers Collections Establishment Hacks Broken Down

Author:James Purdy

“New York este un oraș înfricoșător. Milioane de oameni se luptă bărbătește pentru viața lor. E un oraș cu prea mulți bani. Prea mulți la unii și prea puțini la alții. Și lucrul acesta aruncă o lumină tragică peste tot ce se petrece aici.”

America New York Ilf Petrov

Author:Ilf si Ptetrov

“New York exists for me. Not me for it.”

New York

Author:Scott McClanahan

“New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count”

Years Week Fashion New York Fashion Week Make It Count

Author:Tommy Hilfiger

“New York feels like a sublet of Europe. And Europe is a sublet of New York. Put it that way. It's so accessible. When I was in LA, I felt so far away from my home. Home, for the moment, is here until it's not. I like to move around with my work. I feel it's a great way to learn about life, about new cultures, and to learn. We'll see where the wind takes me.”

Way Feels Moments Home Moving Culture Felt New York Wind Europe Take Me Far Away Home Home New Cultures

Author:Sean Mahon

“New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night.”

Feels Night Walks Streets New York Electric Streets At Night

Author:Theophilus London

“New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.”

Ifs New York Fit West Climate Lifestyle Versions Coast West Coast Yang

Author:Vera Wang

“New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.”

Force Situation New York Endless Surreal

Author:Tom Waits

“New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'”

Men Hell New York Purple Swag Respect Me

Author:ASAP Rocky

“New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just signed a bill that bans powdered alcohol from the state. So if you live in New York and you're consuming powdered alcohol, your life just somehow got even worse.”

Ifs States New York Bills Alcohol Governors Consuming Bans Andrew

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.”

Form Car New York Grew Shapes Grew Up Automobile

Author:Paul Goldberger

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