York Quotes

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it.

I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.