I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.
Amy Sedaris

I was born in New York.
Peter Jurasik

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

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.
Reggie Jackson

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
Daniel Libeskind

I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.
Daniel Libeskind

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
Elvis Costello

I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.
Diana Ross

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley

I've been in New York City now for 22 years.
Julie Gold

When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't.
Wynton Marsalis

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
Alice Cooper

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.
Thomas Dewey

I don't think I'm ready for New York.
Art Tatum

If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.
Mark Messier

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
Mark Messier

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
Wallace Stevens

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.
Griffin Dunne

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
Nancy McKeon