Quotes of: Manhattan Keyword

Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan.

H.L. Mencken

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

iO Tillett Wright

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Jason Alexander

To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.

James Bay

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

Jeannette Walls

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

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

Kool Moe Dee

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Hotel night clerk: You are with police? Larry Lipton: Yes, I'm a detective. They lowered the height requirement.

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Larry Lipton: I like a hotel with lots of blue powder sprinkled along the base boards.

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Larry Lipton: Yes, of course you woke us - not everyone is up at 1 AM watching the porn channel.

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Larry Lipton: My favorite thing in life is, you know, to look at cancelled postage.

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Larry Lipton: I forbid. I forbid you to go. I'm forbidding!... Is that what you do when I'm forbidding?

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Larry Lipton: Don't do this! We should be asleep now in one of our many cuddling positions!

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Carol Lipton: Look at you, you're all white. Larry Lipton: All the blood rushed to my brother!

Manhattan Murder Mystery

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

Doug Liman

The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

Bill Dedman

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

William F. Buckley Jr.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

Julian Casablancas

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

Franny and Zooey

Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like.

Paul Singer