#New York Quotes

“Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?”

“More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!”

“Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.”

“Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!”

“Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before. And it said, 'Welcome to New York,' It's been waiting for you. It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me.”

“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.”

“The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.”

“I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”

“Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.”

“Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.”

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”

“New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.”

“If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.”

“In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.”

“I'll call New York for some cash.”

“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”

“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.”

“If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.”

“I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps”

“Start spreading the news, I am leaving today.I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.”

“If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.”

“When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.”

“If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.”

“I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.”