“For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!” WorldArtImportantTurnsNew YorkLondonContemporaryWowContemporary ArtKiev Author:Victor Pinchuk
“I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.” PeopleYearsTurnsNiceNew YorkTenNew Yorkers Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.” MenWorldAmericaTurnsMorningNew YorkBeatsAffairProsperityEnterpriseQuotationsPulseStock ExchangeBorrowersHonoluluNew York StockNew York Stock Exchange Author:Charles A. Beard
“A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?” PeopleKnowsMenWayLongSaidHandsEyeTurnsWalksCitiesStreetsNew YorkHe ManWalkingLong TimeDollarsBlessNew York CityDisguiseLong Time AgoHarlem Book:The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.” PeopleIfsIdeasTurnsNumbersCitiesNew YorkObjectsIndustryTerribleAttractionTouristsTourism Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me 'Mama Africa' and the name stuck.” ShowsTurnsNamesCitiesDoorsShareNew YorkCallingStuckNew York CityApartmentMamaAlways Happy Author:Miriam Makeba
“Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.” IfsKnowsWantMightTurnsEnvironmentNew YorkSweetHopelessSweetnessBarrelsVinegarPicklesCucumbers Author:Philip Zimbardo
“We thought New York City was home to 8 million rats. Turns out, that's a little high. The actual number is 2 million rats. That explains the light turnout for the midterm elections.” LittlesHomeLightTurnsNumbersCitiesMillionsNew YorkElectionNew York CityRatsMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:David Letterman
“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.” ThinkingStillsReasonBigsTurnsCitiesCrimeNew YorkInspireBrokenCivilizationMysteriousParisMeadowsBig CitiesBroken DownTurn Me Author:Woody Allen
“New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.” MindTurnsCan DoFireCarNew YorkPleasePoliceExcitementEnginesPrivate LifeNew YorkersOwn BusinessAmbulancePolice Cars Book:Time Off for Murder Source: Time Off for Murder
“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others” ThinkingWorldTryingTwoCertainTurnsMiddleNew YorkGoes OnOne DayPopulationStrangerCriticalStaringExpertsLeapSavagesInsectsNoonBumpsDensitySwarmsGrasshoppers Author:John D. MacDonald
“Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and I'm curious how the upper class in New York City lives, I guess I'll read a novel about it." We don't have to do that now. You just turn on the TV. Turn on Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. You can get that information anywhere. Novels don't have to do that anymore.” KindUsedCertainTurnsCitiesClassNovelRichInformationNew YorkTvsWestLifestyleCuriousNew York CityTurn-onCity LifeUpper ClassNebraska Author:Jonathan Franzen
“New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.” PeopleIfsTurnsCitiesNew YorkIdentityRemoveColorless Author:Cate Marvin
“I just got back from New York. You ever been there? There was a big gay parade going on there when I was there, and I never been to one of them, and I like a parade. I always like a parade. So, I go there, and it turns out, it's just a bunch of gay guys.” BigsGuyTurnsNew YorkGayBunchParadesGay Guy Author:Norm MacDonald
“Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.” KnowsWantShouldStoriesKidsSchoolTurnsNew YorkStudentsAssignments Author:T.C. Boyle
“When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.” SaidBookTurnsNovelNew YorkMinesSellsCollectionsChaptersColleaguesPublishersNotableNew York Times Author:Julianna Baggott
“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.” IfsThinkingEnoughCharacterWould BeTurnsFictionJourneyNew YorkCircumstancesPagesSittingVery GoodMetaphorHeavyContemporaryMainstreamThinking About Life Author:Karan Bajaj