(10 quotes found)
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.”
William E. Geist
“The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.”
“They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.”
“Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.”
“The 10 Frenchmen journeyed to America despite warnings from their mothers that they would be mugged within 5 minutes of their arrival in New York and mowed down by gangsters in Chicago -- provided, of course, that they were not scalped by Indians along the way [or captured by] crowds of American women waiting at the airport to get their hands on a Frenchman.”
“George, a camel, stepped on the foot of a Rockette; six sheep came off the elevator as three kings bearing gifts got on; human Christmas trees bumped into eight maids-a-milking at the water cooler and an elf came down with the flu.”
“Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."”
“Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.”
“Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.”
“Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.”
