New York Quotes
September 8, 2010
My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.
- Shirley MacLaine
New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.
- Fran Lebowitz
New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments-constantly enticing thousands from far within and tempting those who came from across the seas to go no farther.
- James Weldon Johnson
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York has never been a dark city, but never has it been so obsessed with light as now. The city has become brightly, intensely lit up-every month, it seems, a new skyscraper top goes ablaze with floodlights, every season a new façade takes on a nighttime presence.
- Paul Goldberger
New York is a city of terribly lonely people who can get together only when they're drugged or drunk or in bed.
- Rollo May
New York is a city that loves what has been called the "Type A" personality: always feeling the press of time, aggressive and competitive, a workaholic, dedicated to achievement.
- Dr. Anthony Zito
New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
- Truman Capote
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
- Duke Ellington
New York is a sucked orange.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
