N Quotes
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“New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary.”
“New York state grape scientists go so far as to say that 'the site characteristics of rain fall, soil nutrients, organic matter, high lime, soil texture and pH are minor compared with soil depth, temperature and replant status.”
Source: From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine
“New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.”
“New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.”
“New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.”
“New York State, like many other states, found that it is much less expensive to provide services for brain injured people at home instead of a hospital or nursing home.”
Source: Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!
“New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.”
“New York Times, Washington Post, AP, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC. And they're all the same thing. If you miss one of those, doesn't matter. You miss ABC, watch NBC. It'll be the same thing. If you miss the Washington Post, go the New York Times. Be the same thing.”
“New York traffic can drive you crazy.”
“New York used to have Edenlike summers.”
Source: In Limbo
“New York vintage is too expensive!”
“New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.”
“New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.”
“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”
Source: Chronicles
“New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.”
Source: Daughter of Earth
“New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.”
“New York was almost poetic in its frenzy—almost like a global India.”
Source: Unfinished
“New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.”
“New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.”
“New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.”
Source: Sonora
“New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.”
Source: But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery
“New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.”
“New York was fun as a kid. I loved to go walking. It was an adventure. I remember throwing my retainer into a garbage can one time and my mom yelling, "Get your ass over here now!" And I had to dig through the garbage and find my retainer.”
“New York was home for Czerny, the same way Chicago was home for me. You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.”
Source: Becoming
“New York was like the internet before the internet. A densely populated, hectic, ever-evolving place that’s always on, that you extract yourself from in order to rest, to catch your breath, and will be there in full force when you’re ready for it again. The city that never sleeps. Interconnected in a grand plexus by a series of subnetworks and subsystems. Shiny parts and seedy parts. Covered in ads, understated and overstated. Multicultural. Everybody’s here, every language is spoken. The anonymous mistaken for the rude: people here get away with saying how they feel, speaking their truths.”
Source: In Limbo
“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu.”
“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.”
“New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.”
“New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.”
“New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.”
Source: Leaving home: a memoir
“New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.”
“New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.”
“New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.”
“New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.”
“New York was the toughest place in the world if you couldn’t afford your rent. On the other hand, if you could afford not only your own rent but the rent of a thousand other people, New York was the greatest city in the universe.”
“New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.”
Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time.”
“New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“New York will be my home for the rest of my life as far as I'm concerned.”
“NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!”
“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.”
Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW
“New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.”
“New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.”
“New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.”
“New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.”
“New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.”
“New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.”
“New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.”
“New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.”
Source: Quicksand & Passing
“New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.”
Source: Time Off for Murder