“In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.” LittlesTwoEnjoyExistenceDogNew YorkWalkingYards Author:Jim Parsons
“The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.” KnowsTryingSometimesSeemsExistenceNew YorkTasteMannersClothingsWaiter Book:New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill Source: New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill
“When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.” YearsFirstsHandsWantedExistenceNew YorkMouthsMovedDancer Author:Madonna Ciccone
“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.” KnowsWorldPersonsCareDesireIndividualFeltMy OwnExistenceDestinyMillionsNew YorkStrangeConcernedIgnorantHopefulInsignificantMoldUnimportantStrange World Book:Daughter of Earth Source: Daughter of Earth
“Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable—not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.” BookMomentsWould BeCitiesExistenceImagineStageSecurityNew YorkProjectsIslamMusicalProductionsNew York CityJerusalemUnimaginableBaghdadPrecautionBeirut Author:Sam Harris