New York Quotes

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
Nicholas Sparks

Read, Might, Ask

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.
Lee Child

America, She, Reflection

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.
Tim Curry

Best, Long, Mean

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
Bill Parcells

Two, York, Disaster

That is all that we want, what people want, what people want in New York, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in any other place in the United States or in Europe. People want to live peacefully. That's what we want.
Ariel Sharon

Live, Place, United

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.
Gail Porter

Love, Coffee, Used

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
Quincy Jones

Experience, Everything, Working

In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.
Jimmy Fallon

Another, Moon, York

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.
Ethan Hawke

Movies, Understand, Difficult

In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.
Ethan Hawke

Car, Same, York

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.
Sigourney Weaver

Family, Away, Sense

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
John James Audubon

Life, Care, May

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.
Michelle Malkin

Work, Busy, Down

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
Wesley Snipes

Since, York, Citizen

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.
Stanley Tucci

Find, York, Pieces

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
Emily Mortimer

Time, Great, Miss

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.
Brian Molko

Time, Men, Amazing

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
Steve Lacy

Love, Old, Listening

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
Ron Chernow

History, York, Street

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.
Ron Chernow

Early, National, York

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.
Ron Chernow

Political, Different, Special

I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
Wallace Shawn

Writing, Thought, Around

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
Carter Burwell

Old, Rather, Fact

I just love the sheer mess of New York.
Carter Burwell

Love, York, Mess

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.
Todd Barry

Again, Year, Comedy

People in New York love having roof parties.
Todd Barry

Love, York, Parties

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
Warren Farrell

Times, Three, Started

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'
Li Na

Love, Hate, Children

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.
Mary Schmich

Love, Coffee, Dream

I'm from New York.
Ray Romano

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