Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
">
Quotes.wiki
Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
New-York  Quotes
Superorganism. A biologist coined that word for our great African ant colonies, claiming that consciousness and intelligence resided not in the individual ant but in the collective ant mind. The trail of red taillights stretching...

—Abraham Verghese

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AfricaConsciousnessImmigrants
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

—F. Scott

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
New-YorkNew-York-City
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names, their works, their constructions. New York’s ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the...

—Luc Sante

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
HistoryNew-YorkNew-York-City
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It’s bewildering to me how you can just start chatting with a complete stranger on Facebook, and – next thing you know – it seems as if there’s some intense connection with the person –...

—Zack Love

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AnissaCollege-RomanceComing-Of-Age
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
This women’s orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold.

—Bailey Bristol

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Historical-RomanceNew-YorkOrchestra
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Oh ParisFrom red to green all the yellow dies awayParis Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the AntillesThe window opens like an orangeThe beautiful fruit of light(“Windows”)

—Guillaume Apollinaire

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AntillesColorColors
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

—Pat R

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ActressCat's-PajamasDepression
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything – pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and...

—E.L. Doctrow

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ExcessIntellectNew-York
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the “New York Slide”: you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall...

—Kelly Cutrone

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CommunicationFashionFashion-Women
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Back in the “leather and lace” eighties, I was the fantasy editor for a publishing company in New York City. It was a great time to be young and footloose on the streets of Manhattan—punk...

—Terri Windling

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
1980s80s80S-Nostalgia
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
America’s industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John...

—Bill Bryson

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Gilded-AgeMoneyNew-York
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here...

—James Agate

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
New-York
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
…for years the first of May was the day all leases expired, and on that day mass migrations would take place, with families lugging eiderdowns and ancestral portraits through the streets, as if in parody...

—Luc Sante

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
HistoryMovingNew-York
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone’s belongings strewn all over the landing...

—Cassandra Clare

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Alec-LightwoodApartmentCity-Of-Lost-Souls
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something...

—Jean Baudrillard

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
LossNew-YorkPostmodern
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
In a supersonic jet, you’ll land before you take off. Your watch – if it’s working right – will go back. (It’ll stop if it’s not). You’ve made a journey forwards and backwards at the...

—Zdeněk Mahler

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
New-YorkNew-York-City
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Take the first left.” For all I know, those people are still lost in Queens.

—Edward Conlon

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CopsDirectionsLost
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It was possible in this wonderful city for that nameless little boy -for any of its millions- to have a decent chance to scale the walls and achieve what they wished. Wealth, rank or an...

—Moss Hart

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AchievementDreamingNew-York
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s...

—Valerie Baber

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Class-PrivilegeMale-PrivilegeNew-York
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I don’t know what to do about him, Sammy.” (Jackie)”It’s not what you do about him. It’s what you do with him. Grab him by those big, manly arms that I’m assuming he has, and...

—Ali Novak

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BestfriendHilariousNew-York
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Human beings shouldn’t have to enter such doors, shouldn’t have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no anything at all. They were worse than the grave, for in the grave...

—Cornell Woolrich

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Hard-BoiledNew-YorkNoir
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party.

—Kathy Acker

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
New-YorkNew-York-City
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky,...

—Amy Thomas

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ChocolateNew-YorkParis
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvious to him that he didn’t. Not in the way Nathan Hale had loved America. Or even in...

—Jacob M.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AmericaBrown-UniversityCountry
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.

—Tom Winton

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
FloridaInspirationalLost-Love
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.

—Christy Hall

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
HumorousNew-YorkWriters
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would...

—Joan Didion

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CitiesNew-YorkNostalgia
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how...

—yielded to

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
199520062008
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
As the trees turned red, then white, then naked as pitchforks, Margot and Xiao Chen immersed themselves in several forests’ worth of pages, and I watched, tortured, as brick after brick of a new development...

—Carolyn Jess-Cooke

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AutumnEditingMargot
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding...

—Edith Wharton

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ChangeNew-YorkPretense
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe...

—Jennifer Echols

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
EscapeHappy-EndingHorses
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I’m in love with New York. It matches my mood. I’m not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever heightened life. I love the proportions, the amplitude, the brilliance, the polish, the...

—Anaïs Nin

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CityNew-YorkPoetry
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Harlem sleeps late.

—Jacob M.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Big-AppleGothamHarlem
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe,...

—Tom Wolfe

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
1980sBuildingsDensity
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.

—Ethan H.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
FamousNew-YorkNew-York-City
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.

—Kelly Moran

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AloneKelly-MoranLoneliness
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
And you can do far more for us from America than you can from here, where you’re just another defenseless Christian. So if you really want to help, Inas, then you’ll go to the very...

—Zack Love

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefFamilyFatherly-Advice
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

—Anna Godbersen

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BooksHomeNew-York
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Xingu!” she scoffed. “Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough...

—Edith Wharton

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BehaviourDangerous-PhilosophyDidacticism
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He’s this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot...

—Michael Thomas

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AlcoholAlcohol-AddictionAlcoholism
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn’t) ‘if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn’t quite recognize”,...

—Christopher Hitchens

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
1990sArgumentationBetrayal
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses...

—Malcolm Cowley

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CoffeeConversationFuture-Plans
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone an steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with...

—Thomas Wolfe

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CitiesCityContrasts
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Never mind gas masks and fallout shelters in the event of biological warfare. Many New Yorkers move from place to place equipped with the essentials of vermin assault weaponry: mouse traps, roach spray, and sticky...

—Isabel Lopez

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
FunnyNew-YorkNew-York-City
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women andgirls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles andemotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasinglyhostile to the womenfolk

—Oche Otorkpa

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AbusedBecomingDecapitated
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Honest dishonesty. That’s quite the oxymoron – but I like the originality that you’ve brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer,” he added jokingly.

—Zack Love

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ContemporaryHonestyIntelligence
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

—Anna Godbersen

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Anna-GodbersenBright-Young-ThingsCity
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!

—Edith Wharton

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Ellen-OlenskaHypocrisyNew-York
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The wind swoops over the tenements on Orchard Street, where some of those starry-eyed dreams have died and yet other dreams are being born into squalor and poverty, an uphill climb. It gives a slap...

—Libba Bray

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Beautiful-WritingNew-YorkThe-Diviners
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
  • Previous
  • Page 2 of 2
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • About us

Copyright © 2017 - 2020 TR Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

Exercise your consumer rights by contacting us below Privacy Policy

[email protected]

Personalized advertisements

Turning this off will opt you out of personalized advertisements delivered from Google on this website.

CookiePro
Confirm
Popup Button popup close button