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A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.
God! I loove this city!
The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.
Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.
The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Logic is no answer to passion.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
One day if I do go to heaven ... I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
