(1968 quotes found)
“That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.”
Gore Vidal
“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
Simon Hoggart
“The city's got the right name-New York. Nothing ever gets old around here.”
Ralph Stephenson
“I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.”
Ani Difranco
“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Each man reads his own meaning into New York”
Meyer Berger
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years”
Thomas Wolfe
“Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.”
Jerry Rubin
“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 didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.”
Reggie Jackson
