Quotes of: New-york-city Keyword

New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.

Damon Runyon

Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America.

Diego Della Valle

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

David Walton

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

Dean O'Gorman

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

Dustin Yellin

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

Ed Markey

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

Bryan Ferry

When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

Barton Gellman

I do like to walk a lot. Mostly in New York. When I'm going somewhere, I'd rather just walk there.

Bregje Heinen

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

Bill Kurtis

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

Bebe Neuwirth

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

Bebe Neuwirth

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

Barry Ritholtz

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

Burton Richter

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

Bernie Sanders

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!

Charles Anthon

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

Carter Burwell

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

Carrie Coon

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

George Pataki

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

Harold Ford, Jr.

In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

Jim Parsons