QUOTES ABOUT NEW YORK CITY

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“New York City is a place where anyone from anywhere can be anything.” – Jay-Z

“In New York, you’ve got to have all the luck.” – Charles Bukowski

“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.” – Rick Riordan

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe

“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” – Ryan Adams

“New York City is my favorite city in the world. Everything happens there. The culture, the food, the people; it’s incomparable.” – Joan Rivers

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike

“I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” – Milos Forman

“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” – Mark Twain

“New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.” – Djuna Barnes

“I love New York City. The reason I live in New York City is because it’s the loudest city on the planet Earth. It’s so loud, I never have to listen to any of the shit that’s going on in my own head. It’s really loud. They literally have guys come with jackhammers and they drill the streets and just leave cones in front of your apartment; you don’t even know why. Garbage men come; they don’t pick up the garbage, they just bang the cans together.” – Lewis Black

“New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.” – Truman Capote PAST RELATIONSHIP QUOTES

“New York is the place where the world comes to be born again.” – Ivo Andric

“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.” – Ferris Greenslet

“New York is a city of achievers and dreamers.” – Bette Midler

“In Rome, I really wanted an alias. I thought, ‘I’ll be an actress and name myself Maria Ferrari. In New York, I’m going to be an actress and call myself Gladys Smith.’ Like a 1920s chorus girl.” – Claire Danes

“I left a lot behind in New York when I left. My entire life, really. But I also left my comfort zone.” – Lara Spencer

“New York is an amazing city. It is an enormous city, a vanguard city and, what’s more, it is a fabulous city.” – Carlos Fuentes

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out.” – Salvador Dalí

“There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.” – Amy Poehler

“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it felt.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.” – Frank Sinatra