Manhattan Quotes

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

Time, Business, Mind

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Gore Vidal

American, President, Chase

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
Tom Hiddleston

Love, Nature, Truth

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
David Byrne

Place, Bit, Bike

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
Joan Jett

Good, Rock, Hard

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.
Susan Orlean

Sunday, Lived, Eating

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
Michael Bloomberg

Best, Special, Said

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
David Duchovny

Time, Whole, Kids

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.
Rick Warren

Small, Quite, Number

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
David Wilkerson

Happen, Miracles, Streets

Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Less, Israel, Bank

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Laura Linney

Father, Wanted, Since

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
Laura Linney

Side, East, Upper

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
Andrew Cuomo

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.
Kevin Mitnick

Down, Serious, Financial

Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.
Sloane Crosley

Working, Means, Knowing

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
Dick Cheney

War, Mind, Important

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
Mario Batali

Relax, Michigan, Antidote

I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.
Barbara Corcoran

Past, Together, Down

It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!
Alexander Payne

Black, Why, Seems

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
Ed Koch

Leave, Whenever, Bends

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
Tom Wolfe

Away, Else, Three

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.
Paul Farmer

Different, Living, Making

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.
Mariel Hemingway

Time, Different, Same

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.
Jurgen Habermas

American, Nation, Cause

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
Jurgen Habermas

Three, City, Century

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.
Christo

Place, Walk, Leisure

I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.
Jenna Ushkowitz

School, Acting, Dance

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.
Julian Casablancas

Pretty, Become, Corner

My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.
Peter King

Help, America, Put

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