Tip to out-of-town visitors: If you buy something here in New York and want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don’t need your name and address.
New York Quotes
I hate New York every day except Marathon Sunday. The kids slapping hands with you, saying ‘Way to go, honky.’ I love that!
The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it.
The Americans are justly very proud of it, and its residents passionately attached to it – a young New Yorker, who had been in Europe for more than a year, was in the same sleigh with me. ‘There goes the old city!’ said he in his enthusiasm, as we entered Broadway; ‘I could almost jump […]
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York.
If Paris is the setting for a romance, New York is the perfect city in which to get over one, to get over anything. Here the lost “douceur de vivre” is forgotten and the intoxication of living takes its place.
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.
I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.
