“Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.” StuffPoorCitiesNew YorkAdvantageInvestmentFlightHotelNew York CityAuditionsHarvardBack In The Day Author:Dean Norris
“I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.” PeopleWaySleepRoomsCitiesFiveStreetsNew YorkMinesTenShadowTrainBottomSnowFlightNew York CityCoalStarvingSleeping In Author:Bob Dylan
“There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.” PeopleTwoCitiesNew YorkBrotherFlightBoardsNew York CityAirplaneClevelandWright Brothers Author:David Letterman
“Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.” MindStatesLinesTalkingNew YorkRiversHollywoodFolksFlightBeachHolidayHopsNeighborhoodGet AwayState Of MindMiamiGreyhoundsNew York StateMiami BeachHudson River Author:Billy Joel
“RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.” DoeHas BeensHardHumorFunnyLandNew YorkFlightHard TimesDublin Author:Frankie Boyle
“U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.” FirstsTwoHouseNationsWhiteCitiesNew YorkNewsOrganizationCaughtBoxesTerrorismFlightVulnerabilityReportsPoundsWhite HouseNew York CityInvestigationContinuingFifteenSeptemberReportersFoxesTouringFlewBin LadenSeptember 11FourteenRazorsSprayOsama Bin LadenFox NewsPeppersUraniumCuttersDaily NewsPepper Spray Author:Dave Barry
“The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.” StillsBookFallWaterEnemyFeetNew YorkCriticismRemainsWingsShiningFoolishFlightElectricWornWoundedSurvivedHostileHammersRecklessWrecksBleedingTorchesWorn OutAnvils Author:A. B. Simpson
“Hillary Clinton flew with President Bush to New York City on Tuesday. She was amazed at the changes aboard Air Force One. For eight years she believed that flight attendants couldn't wear clothes because it made the plane too heavy.” YearsMadeForcePresidentCitiesAirNew YorkClothesClintonHeavyEightFlightPlanesNew York CityAmazedPresident BushFlewTuesdayAir ForceFlight AttendantAir Force One Author:Argus Hamilton