“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
“I am a NEW YORKER which means i work full time and live my life part time”
Kenneth waters Jr
“New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.”
Nigel Goslin
“I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.”
Madonna
“If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi”
Andre Maurois
“Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.”
Anthony Weiner
“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
Fran Lebowitz