“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.” PeopleStoriesAmericaReadingNextCitiesWatchesNew YorkConversationTablesTrainNewspapersRestaurantsSubway Author:Bill Geist
“New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.” KnowsBigsPartyFeetNew YorkTablesCarefulDinnerTouchingDinner Party Author:Susanna Moore
“New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs.” IfsHandsLeftPleasureCitiesNew YorkTablesNew York CitySaltFlavorBangsBucksSpicesLoadedWaiterIndigestionCholesterolAppetizers Author:Leonore Fleischer
“I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.” FeelsWritingViewsCreativeNiceFeetNew YorkBedWindowTablesCoffeeCouchesSkylines Author:Gary Shteyngart
“As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.” CitiesGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkDaughterTablesImmigrantsNew York CityMenus Author:Grace Meng
“In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.” MeanNextStruggleNew YorkTablesKitchenSeatsPretendingBus Author:Mason Cooley
“America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.” PeopleChristianAmericaThreeLeadershipChurchNew YorkHollywoodTablesBubbles Author:Mike Huckabee
“I really like the idea of restaurant life, especially in New York where everyone has small apartments - that restaurant culture where you sit at a table for a long time and the afternoon goes by and you're kind of living there. I like that more than nightlife.” KindLongIdeasCultureNew YorkLong TimeTablesRestaurantsAfternoonApartmentNightlife Author:Piper Perabo
“I was a hoarder, and I got rid of everything. Now nothing comes in my home unless it has a purpose. And decor is not a purpose. Home is New York apartment with a table, a bed and sofas. That's it. Everything else is gone.” HomePurposeGoneNew YorkBedTablesApartmentSofasDecor Author:Linda Evangelista
“I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.” TryingYearsFirstsWaitingCitiesNew YorkYears AgoTablesActressesNew York CityWaitressWaiting Tables Author:Kim Dickens
“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster