“Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs, restrictions, and prohibitions. It is so complicated. It has gotten so bad, I never park my car without a lawyer.” CitiesCarNew YorkFindingsLuckComplicatedLawyerParksNew York CityGood LuckRestrictionProhibitionParking Author:David Letterman
“[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.” Has BeensDifficultNew YorkFindingsPostsHamburgersAlbania Author:Paul Newman
“I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.” BookFormReadingNextNew YorkInternetFindingsLibraryVersionsSurfingBack WhenBooks And ReadingPublic LibrarySurfing The Internet Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.” PeopleShouldCountrySidesNew YorkFindingsDemocratResolutionSenateAmendmentsAdoptedNew York TimesGuantanamoFinding The OneDetainees Author:Peter King
“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.” ThinkingWritingYearsMindLittlesBookSpeakBoysNew YorkFindingsAimLibraryEastSpotsReviewsVagueShelvesGet OverJacketsKansasHurdle Book:Picked-Up Pieces: Essays Source: Picked-Up Pieces: Essays
“There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.” GivingCitiesTeamStreetsNew YorkFindingsModelsGive MeStudiosStrangerFilmmakerNew York CityCasualFollow MeLegitimacy Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.” MeanChildrenShowsCareersNew YorkFindingsOur ChildrenOilBoatYour ChildrenDestroyingUsualPlasticHouseholdSurgeryBankingBostonFarmingPlastic SurgeryBanking SystemPeak OilShow Biz Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'” BigsGuyHouseDifficultWalksBehindsStreetsNew YorkFindingsHeyPairsDrsSunglasses Author:Hugh Laurie
“There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.” HomeCan DoCitiesNew YorkFindingsNeighborTriumphPleasantAnnoyingExclusiveBack HomeGreat Cities Book:Novels, 1930-1942 Source: Novels, 1930-1942