“[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.” WantLittlesHomeViewsCitiesNew YorkStrangeDatingPoint Of ViewNew York CityItemsRummage Sales Book:The Burning Point Source: The Burning Point
“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
“I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.” KindRealArtistFightingJusticeCitiesNew YorkStrangeAffairNew York CityEstatesRetreatLove Affair Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsKindCasesGrowing UpGrowingTroubleStreetsFrontsNew YorkStrangeWalkingHorrorToughMuseumsRidingSubway Author:Christopher Walken
“In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.” PeopleEyeCareHellNew YorkStrangeMetsPerceptionWho You ArePublic Eye Author:Roland Orzabal
“Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.” LittlesTwoMomentsGuyLeftCitiesSawsNew YorkStrangeTypeWalkingTenHundredComplainingYesterdayCardsShopsSecondsThis GuyBucksRippedHighlightsDarrenPlaying Cards Author:Bernard Fanning
“Museums that aren't perfect are the ones that I love. Museums that aren't overdesigned. I always like to visit the strange, odd museums. In New York, the Frick is absolutely my favorite, favorite place because I like to think that it was someone's home not that long ago.” ThinkingLongHomePerfectNew YorkStrangeMy FavoriteOddMuseumsLong AgoFavorite Places Author:Reed Krakoff
“A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition.” KnowsPersonsHappensNextCitiesSituationNew YorkStrangeWalkingEmptyCompetitionNew York CityPaceAwkwardSidewalkAwkward Situations Author:Aaron Karo