New York
Quotes

Broadway is Trade and Vanity made flesh.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.
- Harold C. Schonberg

By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.
- Paul Goldberger

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
- Robert Moses

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
- Nikita Khrushchev

I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.
- Bob Dylan

I like the rough, impersonality of New York....Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
- Bill Bradley

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
- James Cameron

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
- Anais Nin

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.
- P. J. O'Rourke