The best Quotes by Andy Rooney

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

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No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5

New York City

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

New York City

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC

New York City

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

New York City

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

Michael Lawson in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

New York City

I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

Stanley James in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

New York City

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

Colleen Hoover in Verity

New York City

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

Margot Robbie

New York City

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Jay Leno

Crime New York City

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city.

Kit Harington

New York City

Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

Emilia Clarke

New York City

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

David Letterman

New York City

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

Michael Bloomberg

New York City

In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Michael Bloomberg

New York City

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

R. L. Stine

New York City

New York is my favorite city in the world.

Liam Gallagher

New York City

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

James Gandolfini

New York City

L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

Jimmy Fallon

New York City Los Angeles

New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.

Joel Robuchon

New York City

Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.

Tena Desae

New York City Mumbai

When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

Mac Miller

New York City

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo and get a Yankees hat.

Ed Sheeran

New York City New York Yankees

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

Sarah Jessica Parker

New York City

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

Philip Roth

New York City

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley

New York City

I remember coming to New York in 1974. I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.

Anthony Hopkins

New York City

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

Robert De Niro

New York City

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed.

Frank Lloyd Wright

New York City

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Michael Douglas

New York City Chicago Hollywood

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

David Letterman

New York City

Tom Booker: "Do you ever sit still for just a minute?"
Annie: "Well, you sit still too long in New York and you get renovated."

Annie MacLean in The Horse Whisperer

New York City

I am known for my sense of irony but even I would not have come to think of putting a Statue of Liberty into the New York Harbour.

George Bernard Shaw

USA New York City Irony

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Johnny Carson

New York City

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.

JJ Feild

New York City Buenos Aires

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

Rudy Giuliani

New York City

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

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