N Quotes
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“New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.”
Source: Wanderer's Circle
“New York, hands down. I don't want to be there in the winter, but even then it's an amazing place.”
“New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.”
“New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.”
“New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just walked in. They value the wrong things.”
“New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.”
“New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.”
“New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.”
“New York, the nation's thyroid gland.”
“New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.”
Source: Kicked a building lately?
“New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.”
Source: Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
“New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.”
“New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.”
“New York. Truly, this is the only city that I feel this energy. Everyone is accepted. This is the first place that I felt open and that I can do everything.”
“New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.”
“New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
Source: Barthes: Selected Writings
“New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.”
“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”
“New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”
“New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.”
“New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.”
“New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest.”
“New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.”
Source: Once Around the Sun
“New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.”
“New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.”
“New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.”
“New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!”
“New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.”
“New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be.”
“New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.”
“New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.”
“New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.”
“New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.”
“New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love”
“New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.”
Source: Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue
“New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.”
“New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.”
“New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.”
“New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.”
“New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.”
“New Zealand is a place where you can get well.”
“New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone. There's a nice sense of reality on the set and it's really enjoyable. There's a good camaraderie and a good banter between the obviously New Zealand and Australian rivalry.”
“New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.”
“New Zealand is my favorite country to visit.”
“New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.”
“New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.”
“New Zealand, is paradise found.”
“New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.”