“It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.” YearsHas BeensLastsChurchSecretNew YorkHumanismTragicMaterialismSecularismExodus Author:Billy Graham
“I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.” WayYearsPlayCharacterHomeCitiesNew YorkStrikesNew York CityAmazedChekhov Author:Neil Simon
“Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.” GivingWritingYearsHeartChildrenBookSoulPassionAsksBornCitiesNovelNew YorkOur ChildrenResponseYour ChildrenNew York CityExquisite Author:Lee Child
“I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.” IfsYearsTogetherNew YorkMadStormBeachHookedEnvironmentalistSanitary Author:Aubrey McClendon
“I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."” PeopleYearsRememberSupportNew YorkCoupleOffersStandardsCirclesConventionalChefBad Friend Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.” IfsYearsDoneWantedHavensNew YorkDisappointed Author:Daniel Bruhl
“I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.” YearsHalfNew YorkMovedMagazinesBrownAuditions Author:David Walton
“I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.” YearsYoungGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkGrewGrew UpShyVillageStellaAdler Author:Steven Strait
“The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar efforts in years have been more thoroughly commendable than the effort to get our people practically to show their appreciation of the beauty and usefulness of trees.” PeopleYearsChildrenHas BeensStatesShowsSchoolEffortTreeNew YorkTenAppreciationUsefulnessCommendableArbor DayNew York StateArbors Author:Andrew S. Draper
“I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.” YearsKidsPlayerNew YorkBrotherMovedMy BrotherHarlemBlakeConnecticut Author:John McEnroe
“Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.” PeopleIfsWayYearsSchoolActorsActingGenerationsNew YorkChangedGeniusYears AgoDeanBrando Author:Martin Sheen
“I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.” MenYearsFatherBornCitiesPovertyNew YorkSmartBackgroundsGradesNew York CityAcademicFifthPlumberFifth GradeSmart Man Author:Leonard Susskind
“Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.” YearsFirstsImportantCharacterNew YorkYouthPagesExcitingSevenMy TimeConsideringSeven YearsNotable Author:Jerry Robinson
“I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.” IfsYearsFirstsArtSchoolSawsNew YorkFineEightEastVillageBrooklynFine ArtsArt SchoolEast Village Author:Bill Griffith
“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.” YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income Author:Sal Albanese
“It was during my first trip to America in 1953 - thats when I learned to visit museums. I was then 26 years old. When I travel, the first thing I do is to visit museums. When I go to New York City, I usually go to Broadway to see the shows.” YearsFirstsShowsAmericaCitiesNew YorkMuseumsNew York CityBroadway Author:John Gokongwei
“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
“I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.” YearsHardHalfNew YorkGoes On Author:Aziz Ansari
“I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'” ThinkingWantYearsBigsActorsCitiesBoysFantasyNew YorkSceneTenGunNew York CityCopRobbersCops And Robbers Author:Mariska Hargitay
“I engage with New York and America but my parents pretty much hang out in this radius of Long Island where their friends are and where their work is. That's why you have people who have lived in New York for like 20, 30 years who don't speak English. They just live in a Chinese community or an Indian community. More than anywhere you'll find that in Queens.” PeopleYearsLongAmericaSpeakParentCommunityNew YorkChineseIndianQueensIslandsHanging OutJust LiveSpeak EnglishLong IslandRadius Author:Himanshu Suri
“So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.” ThinkingYearsTwoDoneShowsAbleCultureThreeShareNew YorkFairsTheaterIncrediblesFortunateThree TimesFair ShareLive Theater Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“There was a point at which I thought I'd never get the most valuable player, especially the years I played at Minnesota. We never won a pennant there, we were far away from the big media centers of Los Angeles and New York, and I wasn't a flashy power hitter but a guy who hit to spots, who bunted and stole bases.” YearsBigsGuyPlayerMediaNew YorkBasesValuableSpotsLos AngelesFar AwayMinnesotaFlashy Author:Rod Carew
“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.” IfsWayYearsLooksHas BeensSaidDoneHomeBigsThreeEasySimpleNumbersTakenFiveAdviceNew YorkHundredRedFormerHopefullyManagersFive YearsHallsNo BrainerGeneral Manager Author:Roger Clemens
“Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.” YearsBigsCitiesCareersStreetsNew YorkBrotherWallYears AgoNew York CityProfessional Career Author:Gerald Chertavian
“When you're on the road for six months of the year and you're paying New York prices and not even living in your apartment, it just didn't make any sense. So I had to get out of there.” YearsNew YorkMonthsSixApartmentSix MonthsMonths Of The Year Author:Shaun Fleming
“I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York.” IfsWayYearsActionFilmCertainActingNew YorkApproachPubertyPhysicalityAction Films Author:Vin Diesel
“I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.” KnowsYearsLooksSometimesUseTogetherArtistGuyWaitingCitiesCareersNew YorkMarriedModelsWorking TogetherNew York CityDefinite Author:Mike Royer
“Taxicabs might seem like a luxury item, and given the profound needs of so many disabled people in New York, why would we bother with taxis? I contend that even if you need a taxi once a year - there are times when you need a taxi.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsSeemsMightGivenNew YorkProfoundLuxuryBotherItemsDisabledTaxiLuxury Items Author:Simi Linton
“I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.” YearsFirstsTwoJoyNew YorkFirst TimeYears AgoGladTwo YearsHelenHarveyTwo Years Ago Author:James Stewart
“Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him.” MenYearsHumansLooksProblemYoungMotherEconomicNew YorkDegreesLaysLawyerChosenContactAnalysisYoung ManUnlikelyInstituteAnalystsDrudgeryBest YearViennaPsychoanalytic Author:Paul Goodman
“Marg Helgenberger and I were waitresses in the same restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I'm happy to say that that restaurant has since been torn down. [...] We both had an audition for ABC soaps - different soaps, but we auditioned at the same time, and she got the part and went off to New York. Three years later, I went to L.A. So she was kind of an inspiration to me. And it makes sense that we will both be in Wonder Woman together, because we ARE Wonder Women.” YearsKindDifferentInspirationTogetherThreeWonderNew YorkMake SenseRestaurantsThree YearsAuditionsTornSoapWaitressIllinoisWonder Woman Author:Virginia Madsen
“I worked as an assistant editor, actually, for a few years. That was right when I was just starting to get out at night and do a lot of stand-up, improv, and sketch work in New York. It really is invaluable. I think it pounded into me an awareness of what an editor wants and needs, in terms of clarity of a moment, where and when to start and stop a line.” ThinkingWantNeedsYearsMomentsNightTermLinesAwarenessNew YorkStartingClarityEditorsAssistantsInvaluableWants And Needs Author:Ed Helms
“I lived in New York for 10 years, I loved it, I never second-guessed it. There were definitely times when I thought, "I will never leave this place." And I kind of got into that center-of-the-universe mindset.” YearsKindUniverseNew YorkMindsetCenter Of The Universe Author:Ed Helms
“I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.” YearsSchoolThreeFeltNew YorkMovedThree YearsPublic SchoolComa Author:Val Kilmer
“I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home for brief periods and took off again. So the population was very fluid, and suddenly it was as if the continent tilted west. The whole population slid west. It took 10 years for America to coalesce into a new culture. And the new culture happened in San Francisco, not New York.” IfsWorldYearsWarWholeHomeAmericaCultureHappenedNew YorkPeriodsWestSoldierPopulationWar Of The WorldsContinentsSan FranciscoFluidBack HomeJanuarySecond World WarNew Cultures Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.” ThinkingYearsFirstsDifferentCitiesHalfTroubleNew York Author:Mickey Rourke
“I have a streak in myself, like, I'm an exhibi- tionist. There's a side of me that really wants to show off and share parts of myself with others. I mean, that's why I live in New York, and that's why I'm an artist who shows 10 times a year.” WantYearsMeanShowsArtistSidesShareNew YorkShowing OffStreaks Author:Josh Smith
“Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.” YearsCharacterRememberBoysNew YorkYears AgoFishesHotelDedicatedRemember WhenMotorcycleRumbleMayflower Author:Mickey Rourke
“I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything like a "supermodel," but I made a living at it for a couple years. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.” ThinkingYearsLongMadeSelfPoorActingNew YorkCoupleLong TimeModelsConvincedBrokeAttractiveSupermodelPoor Self Image Author:Geena Davis
“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.” ThinkingWritingYearsMindLittlesBookSpeakBoysNew YorkFindingsAimLibraryEastSpotsReviewsVagueShelvesGet OverJacketsKansasHurdle Book:Picked-Up Pieces: Essays Source: Picked-Up Pieces: Essays
“Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.” ThinkingKnowsYearsMadeSaidEnergyAirNew YorkErrorsExcitementWasting TimeNeurosisWasted TimeTime Spent Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.” YearsArtTwoSchoolSocialNew YorkResearchVisualsTwo YearsGraduatesAnthropologyVisual ArtGraduate School Author:Aleksandra Mir
“I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.” WritingYearsFirstsLittlesBitsActingCompanyNew YorkCollegeLittle BitEightTheatreNineNine Years Author:Clark Gregg
“I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York.” YearsUsedActorsOpportunityNew YorkActressesAdmirationImportsActors And Actresses Author:Woody Allen
“When I moved to New York, I had nothing. And a friend of mine also had nothing. And he said, 'Hey, come with me to the Marriot Marquis. And if you go to the 30th floor, and you wait by this door, and you sneak in, you can get free food.' And I did that for three years. I was prepared if anyone said, 'Can we see your room key?' to be like, 'Do you know who I am? I'm Bob Marriot's nephew.' Um, so great, I'm glad to be here and have free food again. And I didn't have to sneak in!” IfsKnowsYearsSaidThreeWaitingRoomsDoorsNew YorkMinesKeysMovedPreparedGladWho I AmHeyDo You KnowThree YearsBobSneakNephewYour RoomSneak InFree Food Author:Santino Fontana
“The universe has fascinated mankind for many, many years, dating back to the very earliest episodes of Star Trek, when the brave crew of the Enterprise set out, wearing pajamas, to explore the boundless voids of space, which turned out to be as densely populated as Queens, New York. Virtually every planet they found was inhabited, usually by evil beings with cheap costumes and Russian accents, so finally the brave crew of the Enterprise returned to Earth to gain weight and make movies.” YearsEarthUniverseEvilFoundStarsSpaceMankindNew YorkPlanetsGainsWeightDatingBraveQueensEnterpriseFascinatedVoidEpisodesAccentsCrewCostumesBoundlessPajamas Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.” YearsTwoCountryGrowsCitiesGrowing UpNew YorkYeahParksLakesCompetingUtahPlacidLake Placid Author:Elana Meyers
“I have been to non-denominational churches like National Community Church in Washington D.C., but I've also gone to Lake Placid Baptist and a slew of other churches. I got baptized with my fiancé (Nic Taylor) this last year at Saranac Lake Baptist Church (in New York), so maybe that makes us Baptist. But for me, it's really been about my relationship with Christ and not so much about a denomination or a label.” YearsHas BeensLastsChristCommunityChurchGoneNew YorkLabelsLakesLast YearBaptistsDenominationsBaptizedPlacidNational CommunityLake Placid Author:Elana Meyers
“I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.” PeopleKnowsYearsThreeNew YorkBuildingMy FamilySquaresQuarters Author:Dan Aykroyd
“Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.” YearsTodayThreeWhiteTreeNew YorkYears AgoTheatreThree YearsAlleysChristmas TreeMug Author:Ben Hecht