(1968 quotes found)
“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”
Agatha Christie
“New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.”
Brendan Behan
“You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.”
Bill Lee
“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.”
John Updike
“New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire”
Henry James
“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.”
Henry Miller
“Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it.”
Ashley Judd
“They say life's what happens when you're busy making other plans. But sometimes in New York, life is what happens when you're waiting for a table.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.”
Johnny Carson
