A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
Bernard Baruch

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
John Updike

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
Calvin Klein

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
Billy Connolly

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
Anne Rice

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'
Robert De Niro

It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
Samantha Bee

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Agatha Christie

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
Brendan Behan

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
Ezra Pound

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
Steven Morrissey

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
Jim Harrison

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
Jim Harrison

It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed.
John McEnroe

Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.
John McEnroe

I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.
John McEnroe

I love New York City; I've got a gun.
Charles Barkley

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.
Joe Namath

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith Wharton