New York
Quotes

The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.
- Philip Hone

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
- Finley Peter Dunne

The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling. But I love New York.
- Dorothy Kilgallen

There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that sets the standards, the city in which all who have anything to do with the arts dream of working and succeeding.
- Harold Schonberg

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
- Don Herold

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.
- Don Herold

There's no room for amateurs, even in crossing the streets.
- George Segal

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.
- Gloria Naylor

This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.
- Cynthia Heimel

Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.
- Jennifer Dunning