New York Quotes
September 8, 2010
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most of it unsolved.
- Johnny Carson
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.
- James Fenimore Cooper
New York is headquarters town, it's the cerebellum and cerebrum.
- Gilbert Bruck
New York is like a disco, but without the music.
- Elaine Stritch
New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American culture.
- Saul Bellow
New York is notoriously the largest and least loved of any of our great cities. Why should it be loved as a city? It is never the same city for a dozen years altogether. A man born forty years ago finds nothing, absolutely nothing, of the New York he knew.
- Harper's Monthly, 1856
New York is the city of rampant creativity, of abundant imagination, whether you are in advertising or the theater or the stock market. They are all fields built on imagination, the spinning of ideas and creations, of fantasy becoming reality. It is everything.
- A.M. Rosenthal and Arthur Gelb
New York is the city of rampant creativity, of abundant imagination, whether you are in advertising or the theater or the stock market. They are all fields built on imagination, the spinning of ideas and creations, of fantasy becoming reality. It is everything.
- Dr. James Hillman
New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.
- Isaac Stern
New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
- Russell Baker
