New York City Quotes - Page 2

What I love about New York: the faster and more recklessly my cab driver drives the safer and all around better I feel.

There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened up to reveal two brawlers being separated and pulled away from their fight. What I saw next gave me a fright: in the farther distance, beyond the listless crowd, the body of a lynched man dangling from a tree. The body was slender, dressed from head to toe in black, reflecting no light. It soon resolved itself, however, into a less ominous thing: dark canvas sheeting on a construction scaffold, twirling in the wind.

Teju Cole

Fuck the Bureau! Their entire outfit is half the size of the NYPD. I've got more officers who speak Arabic in one precinct that you guys have in the entire D.O.D.!

Brian K. Vaughan

One of my favorite things to do is put my headphones on,blast some good music and just walk my own personal music video

Donal O'Callaghan

If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.

Elizabeth Bard

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.

Amor Towles

Want more fizz in your life? Shake things up.

Gina Greenlee

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Gina Greenlee

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

Gina Greenlee

The alchemy of diamonds from the rough is to mine every moment.

Gina Greenlee

Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.

Gina Greenlee

Those who walk the talk get the work.

Gina Greenlee

As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

Gina Greenlee

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

Gina Greenlee

When you look for beauty, you usually end up finding it.From Central Park Song (A Screenplay)

Zack Love

Let the park live in you until it sings you a song.

Zack Love

All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirling ribbons of light, red, green, violet, were festooned about the doorways of drugstores and restaurants--and the famous electric signs of Broadway had come to life with glittering fish, dancing figures, and leaping fountains, all flashing like fire. Everything was beautiful. Up in the deepening sky above the city the first stars appeared white and rare as diamonds.

Elizabeth Enright

You might find me cleverly clad, in black on black, at 28th and 7th Ave.

Jonathan P. Lamas

VISIONS OF GRANDEURI'm walking through a sheet of glass instead of the door,Flying over a giant candlestick lighting up Central Park,Repeating two courses at Hard Knock's College,And swimming through the Red Sea with silky jelly fish.I'm hopping over an empty row house in Philadelphia,Getting a seventy dollar manicure on a gondola in Venice,Wearing a white pearl necklace stolen from Goodwill,And running my first New York City marathon.I'm discussing the meaning of life with my late cat Charlie.Dating John Doe- the thirty-third chef at the White House,Running non-stop on a broken leg through a bomb-blasted city,And keeping a multi-lingual monkey named Alfredo as my pet.I'm spying on two hundred and twenty-two homegrown terrorists from Iowa,Worshiped by a red-headed gorilla named Salamander,Sleeping with a giant teddy bear dressed in black leather,And wearing hot pink lipstick over a shade of midnight blue.

Giorge Leedy

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Thomas Pynchon

There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was held up on broad arches of rubble. In Constantinople the minarets flame like great candles round the Golden Horn… Steel, glass, tile, concrete will be the materials of the skyscraper. Crammed on the narrow island the millionwindowed buildings will just glittering, pyramid on pyramid like the white cloudhead above a thunderstorm.

John dos Passos

The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry.

Milan Kundera

Look at it,' he said, gesturing. 'This window looks down upon hundreds more panes of glass, and behind those panes live thousands upon thousands of lost souls. When I feel cast down and helpless, scores of other men do as well, and when I am bitterly angry at feeling cast down and helpless, countless other people languish in concert with me. When I'm happy, it's the same. It's a bit like...I used to play chamber music. It's like a vast orchestra. And so I shan't ever be alone.

Lyndsay Faye

New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign.

Charles Emmerson

New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.

Elizabeth Winder

Did you go to the the theatre last time you were here?'No, it's too expensive.''What did you do?''What tourists always do in New York City. Empire State, Statue of and all the galleries. There's a million galleries.''Where'd you stay?''The first two nights, I slept in an abandoned car. A Pontiac Grand Am.' Weren't you scared?''Not really. It had a doorman.

Sean Condon

The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names, their works, their constructions. New York's ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the dispossessed, the depraved, the defective, the recalcitrant. They are the guardian spirits of the urban wilderness in which they lived and died. Unrecognized by the history that is common knowledge, they push invisibly behind it to erect their memorials in the collective unconscious.

Luc Sante

Real, but sometimes beautiful.

Nancy Garden

Whether by plane, bus or carpet, own the magic in your ride.

Gina Greenlee

My main concern while in New York wasn't becoming a hot shot. I was more concerned with staying alive, and that took all the pleasure out of the experience. I didn't know where to find a grocery store so I subsisted on hot dogs, peanuts and whatever else I could buy from a street vendor. I didn't know how to hail a cab (apparently there's an art to it). I stood on the edge of the sidewalk and waved my arms around but no one stopped, so I limited my entire universe to however far I could walk and I never walked too far because I was afraid I'd get lost and never find my way back home again. Perhaps that's why there are so many homeless people in New York; maybe they're not really lost, maybe some of them have homes but they just don't know how to get there.

Marlin Bressi

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

Gina Greenlee

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

Gina Greenlee

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

Gina Greenlee

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

Gina Greenlee

Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

Gina Greenlee

Give full attention to life’s moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.

Gina Greenlee

The adventures of a lifetime begin with “Yes.

Gina Greenlee

Whether you need to make a call or answer one,don’t put your passions on hold.

Gina Greenlee

Though I have not lived in New York City for more than two decades, these storytellers – from the United States, Britain and Canada – have touched my heart with their openness, inspired me with their joie de vivre and deepened my appreciation for my hometown as a worldwide phenomenon. Welcome to our New York.

Gina Greenlee

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

Gina Greenlee

By necessity, we are direct and swift in speech and movement. This is the true dynamic that underlies our apocryphal rudeness. Also true: we do not make eye contact. Neither do we encourage it. Consider the number of humans a New Yorker will pass on a given day – on the subway, in a train or bus terminal, in an office or simply walking down the street. To facilitate speed and minimize drama, it’s productive to keep one’s eyes focused ahead.

Gina Greenlee

You’d be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

Gina Greenlee

For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with their fingers, squinting at street signs or staring at a slip of paper with confusion are typical recipients of our generosity. We know our city can be as challenging as it is fascinating, and we want visitors to have a good experience.

Gina Greenlee

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

Gina Greenlee

I know when people think of New York, they think of theater, restaurants, cultural landmarks and shopping,” I told him. “But beyond the iconic skyline and the news from Wall Street, New York is a collection of villages. In our neighborhoods, we attend school, play Kick the Can, handball and ride our bikes. I grew up knowing the names and faces of the baker, the shoe repair family, the Knish man and the Good Humor man who sold me and the other kids in my neighborhood half a popsicle for a nickel. My father took me to the playground where he pushed me on the swing, helped balance me on the seesaw and watched as I hung upside down by my feet on the monkey bars. Yes,” I told the interviewer, “people actually grow up in New York.

Gina Greenlee

Ten years have passed and every day that I walk throughout the city, I feel honored to be a part of it - and atom in the blood of a beating heart belonging to the most wonderfully diverse, smart, creative, passionate being.

Melisa Singh

At chaos’ core lies the invitation.

Gina Greenlee

If you want it badly enough, it’s yours.

Gina Greenlee

The rest is just slow diminution and loss. A waning of the full and effulgent moon of my youth. Not that the bright light of my youth was anything to be proud of. I was a terrible person. I did unkind and sometimes illegal things. I treated women abominably. The remembrance of it causes me to flush with shame and to feel a tightening in my groin.It was a radiance without warmth, and I thought of nothing but myself in the brightness of the light. Now I try never to think of myself. I try not to think at all, not to dwell, but, sometimes, late at night, it all comes back to me, and I lose myself in the life that might have been, the wife of twenty years, her comforts and distractions. The fractious children, raucous at the holidays, with their tattoos you asked them not to get and their lacrosse sticks they play with in the house, stringing and restringing them, the trips to Paris to stay at the Lutetia. Photograph albums of a life that never quite came to be. It doesn’t last long when it comes, but it is vivid, and I am there, not here, not here where I belong. When you lose everything, you don’t die. You just continue in ordinary pants with nothing in your pockets.

Robert Goolrick

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

Gina Greenlee

New insights from being present are a gift.

Gina Greenlee

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

Gina Greenlee

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

Gina Greenlee

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you’ll lighten the weight of regret.

Gina Greenlee

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

Gina Greenlee

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.

Gina Greenlee

Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.

Gina Greenlee

If “Been there, done that” isn’t your mantra,then make haste down your “bucket list.

Gina Greenlee

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.

Gina Greenlee

Diving in IS testing the water.

Gina Greenlee

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