227 quotes found
“No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.”
“East Side, West Side, all around the town,The tots sang "Ring-a-rosie, London Bridge is falling Down;Boys and Girls together, me and Mamie O'Rorke, Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of N...”
“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their...”
“Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study.[Adolph S. Ochs - Publisher New York Times]”
“New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Fr...”
“There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.”
“If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.”
“The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.”
“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”
“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”
“Back and forth from Brooklyn to Manhattan. New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickeri...”
“Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.”
“I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.”
“City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, ...”
“New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.”
“New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American”
“No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.”
“New York, the nation's thyroid gland.”
“I love Israel, I go back all the time. I just love New York a little more. My workers are Arabs, my best friend is a black man from Alabama, my girlfriend's a Puerto Rican, and my landlord is a hal...”
“The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.”
