New York Quotes

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

The first thing that strikes a stranger in the Big Apple is a taxicab.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

New York is a great place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.

New York: Skyscraper National Park.

If it ain’t broke, it ain’t breakable.

New York is where you can get the best cheap meal and the lousiest expensive meal in the country.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfil him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.