New York
Quotes

(Is) New York the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights are like the nights there. I have looked down across the city from high windows. It is then that the great buildings lose reality and take on magical powers. Squares and squares of flame, set and cut into the ether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
- Ezra Pound

(New York) is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. IT is the icing on the pie call Christian civilization.
- H. L. Mencken

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
- Mignon McLaughlin

A man who lives in Connecticut and works in New York commonly spends an hour and a half getting to work; he drives from five minutes to half an hour to get to the station; rides from fity minutes to an hour and twenty minutes on the train; once in New York, he taxis or walks or subways an additional distance before he checks in, frequently already worn out and disgruntled, for what in our civilization is laughingly called a day's work.
- Harry Reasoner

A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.
- Jackie Mason

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.
- Garrison Keillor

Broadway is a main artery of New York life-the hardened artery.
- Walter Winchell