Quotes of: New-york-city Keyword

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

Piper Perabo

Amsterdam Vallon: It's a funny feeling being taken under the wing of a dragon. It's warmer than you'd think.

Gangs of New York

Amsterdam Vallon: If you get all of us together, we ain't got a gang, we've got an army.

Gangs of New York

Boss Tweed: Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting.

Gangs of New York

Amsterdam Vallon: Lord, place the steel of the Holy Spirit in my spine and the love of the Virgin Mary in my heart.

Gangs of New York

Bill: A *real* native is someone who is willing to die fighting for his country. There's nothing more to it.

Gangs of New York

McGloin: Father! Jesus, did you know there's a nigger in ya church? [the priest hits him in the head with his staff]

Gangs of New York

[as an anti-draft riot takes place] Boss Tweed: Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

Gangs of New York

Amsterdam Vallon: [the failed assassin is dying] I think he's making his peace with God.

Gangs of New York

Caden Cotard: Hazel, you've been a part of me forever. Don't you know that? I breathe your name in every exhalation.

Synecdoche, New York

Caden Cotard: I wish we had this when we were young. And all those years in between.

Synecdoche, New York

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

Henry Rollins

...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every new city or country or continent that I visit is a beautiful...

Andrea Michaels

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

New York to Dallas

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

In the City of Shy Hunters

A brick could be used to get a new job. Hire me! I have a brick, and I’m not afraid to use it. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.

Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes

I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

Dani Shapiro

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.

Alex Steffen

I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me.

Ruta Sepetys

Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start...

Lewis Black