Van Duzer New York Quotes

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City. ~ Van Jones

Saw Torres play their first New York show tonight at Cake Shop. SO good. Do yourself a favor and check out her record. Her voice is KILLER. ~ Sharon Van Etten

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York ... New York ... New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander ~ Karla M. Nashar

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories. ~ James M. Cain

I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper. ~ ASAP Rocky

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York. ~ Leighton Meester

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice. ~ Bob Dylan

I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say. ~ Latrell Sprewell

A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights) ~ Ed Park

I probably have to move out of New York. I just can't live in New York anymore. ~ Alec Baldwin

Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody. ~ T.A

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way. ~ James Purdy

LA is very different from New York. New York is a huge, dense metropolis. LA is a bunch of small towns all running into each other.

New York is the city that never sleeps. Los Angeles is an endless sea of suburbs. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

I've been in New York City now for 22 years. ~ Julie Gold

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York. ~ Martin Scorsese

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival. ~ Man Ray

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off. ~ Adam Rapp

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day. ~ Andrew Sullivan

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down. ~ Betty Comden

New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream. ~ Ralph Ellison

I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster encircling the entire premises, just like Manhattan. ~ Mitch Hedberg

I simply assumed I would bundle up my New York wife with her New York interests, her New York pride, and remove her from her New York parents - leave the frantic, thrilling futureland of Manhattan behind - and transplant her to a little town on the river in Missouri, and all would be fine. ~ Gillian Flynn

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city. ~ Patti Smith

Sometimes I look like I was under interrogation. Some people just don't look good in clothes. In New York, Armani and all those clothing people used to call me up and tried to pay me not to wear their clothes. This is as good as it's going to get ... and then it's all downhill. I'll be fine. I never feel as bad as I look. ~ Jeff Van Gundy

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this? ~ Manfred Gerstenfeld

Start spreading the news, I am leaving today.
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York. ~ Frank Sinatra

Your first time in New York, feeling like you were marching through canyons, the skyscrapers leaning over to peek down at you and your trombone. ~ David Levithan

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. ~ Colson Whitehead

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. ~ Fred Allen

HorizonTrip offers New York to Mumbai flights.Find air ticket deals and book your Cheap flights to Mumbai(BOM) from New York(JFK). ~ Helena

Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?' ~ Dennis Prager

I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling. ~ Frankie Cosmos

If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore. ~ Moby

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to. ~ Amor Towles

New York City is a phoenix rising from the ashes. ~ Rebecca McNutt

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera. ~ Anna Kendrick

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

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

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time, and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City. ~ Elaine Stritch

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown. ~ Princess Superstar

I'm proud to be a New York Yankee. ~ Jacoby Ellsbury

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York. ~ Otis Rush

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does ~ Groucho Marx

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. ~ Henry Miller

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times. ~ John F. Kennedy

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York. ~ Art Garfunkel

I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York. ~ Shaun Fleming

New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign. ~ Charles Emmerson

New York is a state of mind
that doesn't mind
fucking up a brother.

from "New York New York" by the Last Poets ~ Abiodun Oyewole

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. ~ Lewis Grizzard

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times. ~ Judy Holliday

I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks. ~ Paul Dano

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching. ~ Faith Prince

No, I didn't make it to New York. I fucking love New York, even though my version of the American dream is impossible there and their gross, floppy pizza is like eating someone's post–plastic surgery skin. ~ Samantha Irby

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews. ~ Harold C. Schonberg

Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York. ~ Stephen King

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

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority. ~ Phil Angelides

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ~ Djuna Barnes

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German. ~ Gore Vidal

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise. ~ Nate Berkus

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school. ~ Sharon Van Etten

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous. ~ Ethan H. Minsker

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. ~ Pearl S. Buck

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon. ~ Gore Vidal

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second. ~ Fran Lebowitz

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles. ~ Neil Simon

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide. ~ David Letterman

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker. ~ Anthony Weiner

The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs. ~ Jay Leno

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it. ~ Mike Myers

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page. ~ Art Buchwald

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways. ~ Gillian Jacobs

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just signed a bill that bans powdered alcohol from the state. So if you live in New York and you're consuming powdered alcohol, your life just somehow got even worse. ~ Jimmy Fallon

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us. ~ Colson Whitehead

I don't think I'm ready for New York. ~ Art Tatum

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York. ~ Janice Dickinson

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind ~ Nas

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City. ~ Jesse Eisenberg

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person. ~ Fran Lebowitz

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from. ~ Fran Lebowitz

I climbed aboard a Greyhound bus and rode it to New York without telling anyone, without so much as a goodbye. What was I thinking? I wasn't. I was young and stupid and broken. I knew from watching movies that broken people hopped on buses and disappeared. New York seemed far away, geographically, mentally. ~ Ken Wheaton

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. ~ Russell Baker

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire. ~ David Letterman

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York. ~ Josh Radnor

New York is a sucked orange. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love New York. You're never alone, but you're always on your own. ~ Leighton Meester

It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions. ~ Samantha Bee

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week. ~ Nate Silver

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch ... ~ David Letterman

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing? ~ Van Jones

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City. ~ Linus Pauling

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters. ~ Busta Rhymes

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. ~ Spike Lee

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City. ~ Mario Batali

I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City. ~ Andrej Pejic

Le Cirque is strictly New York people. New York people don't eat at home; New York people go out. ~ Sirio Maccioni

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York. ~ Jim Gaffigan