Best Times Square Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Times Square, much like these TV ads, expects little of us, if not quite the worst. Instead of treating one like an overgrown six-year-old with impulse control issues and a huge piggy bank ready for the smashing, as the ads do, it treats one like an enormous genital. A penis with a wallet, if one prefers.”

Ads Times Square

Book:Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Source: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

“Promises are just dressing for the year to come.”

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Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still as a meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in on the people there and the wind moving among them as if they were only tall blades of grass.”

Cities Contentment Meadows Times Square

Book:The Cricket in Times Square

Source: The Cricket in Times Square

“The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky.”

Light New York City Times Square

Book:The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.”

New York City Holidays Times Square

Book:Tales of Times Square

Source: Tales of Times Square

“And we are giddy, because dawn is here, we’re at the center of the world and we’re at the center of our own universe, and spring is here, and the air smells wet and clean. God bless Manhattan, you know, because it must be six in the morning on a Sunday yet trash collection trucks are teeming down the street and Times Square workers in their bright-orange uniforms are cleaning up the night’s excesses and not even the smell of fresh spring rain can completely wash away Eau de Times Square Urine/Trash/Vomit, but somehow this here, this now, it feels perfect.”

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Book:Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“I knew that I needed to quiet my mind; lucky for me, there is no place to quiet your mind like the northernmost edge of Manhattan's Times Square.”

Manhattan Times Square

Book:My Squirrel Days

Source: My Squirrel Days

“Times Square—loud and bright twenty-four hours a day, bearing a more stunning light than the Statue of Liberty ever could, a Disneyfied Lucifer leading New York’s damned to a fire ever-building, ever-burning.”

New York Tourism Times Square

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“As a kid, I thought the song Auld Lang Syne was called Old Man's Eye. I like my version better.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.”

Sides Corners Noses Bus Squares Waking Craziest Times Square

Author:Allison Williams

“That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.”

Trying Light Watches Middle Internet Phones Colour Squares Eyeballs Times Square

Author:Michel Gondry

“I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.”

Broke Squares Pennies Subway Times Square

Author:Jennifer Garner

“I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.”

People America Culture Community Cities New York Reactions Passing Passings New York City Squares Passing Through Merging Hub Times Square

Author:Dhani Jones

“Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.”

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Author:David Letterman

“The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?”

People Country Walks Hell New York Block Squares Foreigners Korean Vietnamese Times Square

Author:John Rocker

“You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square.”

Seats Squares Times Square Deuces

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'”

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Author:Rich Sommer

“I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area either means that 1) God is watching over me or 2) I am so insignificant to God that he didn't bother having me killed.”

Mean Used Night Comedy Areas Clubs Bother Squares Every Night Insignificant Improvisation Times Square Comedy Clubs

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.”

People Thinking Sleep Cities Nice New York Eating Sunshine Squares Broadway Nighttime Sushi Never Sleep Nightlife Times Square

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!”

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Author:Betty Who

“When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.”

Firsts America Past Remember Squares Avoiding Flew Spit Unattractive Times Square

Author:John Gielgud

“The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.”

Has Beens States United United States Mass Program Majority Caught Dues Campaigns Terrorist Squares Surveillance Espionage Terrorist Attacks Cyber Bombers Vendors Times Square

Author:Edward Snowden

“We didn't make money but we never lost money. We'd sit around Times Square with fliers, walk around the Village and try and get people to come. Now you'd just tweet it, but that was the beginning of emails, or the beginning of me doing emails - I'm sure there were people in 1986 who were doing emails.”

People Trying Lost Walks Making Money Village Squares Email Tweet Times Square Lost Money

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Done Helping Humor Funny New York Driven Damage Squares Bombers Toyota Times Square

Author:Frankie Boyle

“The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.”

People Looks Values Sex Results New York Drug Areas Safety Clean Dull Shops Squares Urban Homeless Suburbs Cleanliness Dullness Homeless People Times Square Orderliness Urban Areas

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really believed then, in 1966, they would not have allowed me to make any of the movies I made. Today, you could make a snuff movie at NYU and get an A.”

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Author:John Waters

“I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.”

Feels Crazy New York Squares Times Square

Author:Alessia Cara

“I had known David Ham and Marco Santiago from having met and worked with them on The Cross and the Switchblade which we worked on together at Times Square Church. We joined together as Trace Life Media to be a directing/producing team to be able to assist churches in the production of a play in their own community or to bring a fully-produced productions - something that will be ministering to the Body of Christ.”

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Author:Patricia Mauceri

“Hookers in Times Square, God bless 'em, are offering a Mitt Romney Special. For an extra $20 they'll change positions.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.”

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Author:Eric Holder

“The Times Square Incident wasn't a terrorist attack, it was a Jim Carrey movie. The terrorist locked the keys to the safe house he was going to escape to in the carbomb. And I love that he locked the carbomb. Nobody's getting my Ipod. Then he left the keys to carbomb hanging out of the tailgate of the carbomb, and built the carbomb out of fertilizer that wouldn't explode. I have been doing comedy for 25 years and I have never been that funny.”

Years Has Beens House Left Comedy Keys Safe Built Terrorist Hanging Out Squares Locked Incidents Ipods Terrorist Attacks Fertilizer Times Square Tailgates

Author:Christopher Titus

“I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.”

People Way Mind Kind Missing Strange Squares Times Square Sleazy

Author:Malachy McCourt

“I was just a seventeen-year-old kid, going to Times Square to participate in this left-wing demonstration. The signs were for peace and justice and so on. But then I was attacked by police mounted on horseback and on foot. Before I knew it, I was clubbed and knocked unconscious. So it gave me a radical view of the United States, a critical view of the role of the state and of the instruments of the state - the police, the Army, and so on - as not being neutral at all in political battles, but being generally against workers and against striking people, against dissenters of all kinds.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.”

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Author:Marlo Thomas

“Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.”

Years Heart Spirit Church Holy Years Ago Holy Spirit Squares Eighteen Times Square

Author:David Wilkerson

“'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.”

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Author:James Wolcott

“Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.”

Lasts Night Clear Walking Ghost Squares Last Night Sidewalk Times Square

Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.”

Courses Squares Billboards Times Square

Author:Rick Riordan

“But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square”

Light Cities Fairs Treats Bigger Rap Squares Dimes Times Square City Lights

Author:Puff Daddy

“To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."”

Men Said Would Be Lost Situation Watches Economics Sticks Squares Pavement Times Square Present Situation

Author:William Vickrey

“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.”

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Book:Howard's End

Source: Howard's End

“My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.”

Stills Mom Scared My Mom Squares Old Time Times Square

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?”

Organized Squares Times Square

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“All right, New York City! Welcome to Madison... Square... Jericho! And after tonight, when I become the true, undisputed Intercontinental champion, the Jerichoholics of the Big Apple will throw a celebration party that will make the millennium bash in Times Square look like my sister's seventh birthday party! It'll be a celebration so huge, so grandiose, so spectacular, that it will never, EEEEEEEEVER, be forgotten again!”

“I plan on getting out there and mixing with the crowd. I want to show everyone what happens in Times Square not from a distance, but from right there in the crowd.”

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Author:Regis Philbin

“I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'”

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Author:Tom Waits

“In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.”

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Author:Alfred Eisenstaedt

“When I was the first time for a job in New York, I saw Natalia Vodianova on an oversized billboard in Times Square on a Calvin Klein billboard.”

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Author:Lara Stone

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