“Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I'm popping Zicam like it's candy. And I drink, literally, from L.A. to New York, six bottles of water.” WaterNew YorkDrinkSixBottlesRoutineAirplaneCandyPopping Author:Zachary Quinto
“It's autumn in New York. The colors are changing yellow, the browns, the greens, the oranges. And that's just the tap water.” WaterNew YorkColorAutumnYellowOrangeTap Water Author:David Letterman
“As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.” WayShouldBigsLife IsLostWaterTechnologyCuttingInformationNew YorkAskingGratefulMovedProfoundDeeperI RealizedDependentElectricityHurricanesShort LifeAccessibilitySandyHow Short Life IsHurricane Sandy Author:Archie Panjabi
“New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.” MenFoundWaterMillionsImpossibleNew YorkReturnHorrorWindowRoseWaveCaged Book:Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes
“Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.” MayTwoEndsWaterCitiesFourSeaFeetCenturyNew YorkHigherClimateClimate ChangeStormRisingNew York CityCoastal Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.” IfsWaterCitiesNew YorkRoseInvisibleVisibleTemplesTallGothicDetached Author:Nina Berberova
“Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.” WayDoeBookEndsCharacterWaterFiveWeekNew YorkChangedSingingListsMainstreamNew York TimesSellersInsidersBest SellersHitchhikingTimes Have ChangedDuets Author:John Waters
“...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their water supply comes from hundreds of miles away and any interruption of that, or food, or power for any period of time, you're going to have riots in the streets. Our society is so fragile, so dependent on the interworking of things to provide us with goods and services, that you don't need nuclear warfare to fragment us anymore than the Romans needed it to cause their eventual downfall.” NeedsCausesWaterCitiesStreetsNew YorkNeededPeriodsNuclearMilesDependentOur SocietyGoodsLos AngelesChicagoFragileWarfareFragmentsRiotBreakdownNuclear WarDownfallInterruptionsMiles AwayGoods And ServicesLarge Cities Author:Gene Roddenberry