227 quotes found
“New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.”
“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people ...”
“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one st...”
“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a ...”
“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”
“New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the e...”
“I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.”
“The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the po...”
“Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the extension of the city began to assume a theoretic air, where poplars grew beside the pavement (w...”
“The ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing-r...”
“Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as they say in New York. He had been living ever since his marriage in an edifice of red brick, with granite co...”
“This isn’t Soviet Russia. This is America we’re talking about. For God’s sake, this is New York City.”
“At chaos’ core lies the invitation.”
“If you want it badly enough, it’s yours.”
“Increase the number of adventures you act on and you’ll lighten the weight of regret.”
“No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.”
“If “Been there, done that” isn’t your mantra,then make haste down your “bucket list.”
“If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.”
“Give full attention to life’s moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.”
“The adventures of a lifetime begin with “Yes.”
