New York Quotes
September 8, 2010
New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.
- David Frost
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
- David Letterman
New York was pandemonium with a big grin on.
- Tom Wolfe
New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.
- John V. Lindsay
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
- Christopher Morley
New York: a third-rate Babylon.
- Unknown
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
- Harry Hershfield
New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.
- Brooks Atkinson
No other city in the United States can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take it away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.
- Fletcher Knebel
No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.
- Kenneth t. Jackson
