The best Quotes by Edith Wharton

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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

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

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeleine L'Engle - A Ring of Endless Light

Light Darkness

Shadow and light are two sides of the same coin, one cannot exist without the other.

The Legend of Zelda in The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess

Light Shadows

There's always a little light in the darkness.

Jackie Estecado in The Darkness

Light Darkness

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.

Foolishness Light

All of the world's darkness isn't enough to extinguish one candle's light.

Roman Herzog (as President of Germany) - Dezember 1998

Light Candles

Even the smallest candle pierces the darkness like the sharpest blade.

Pax Dei

Light Candles

Better light a candle than curse the darkness.

Days Gone

Candles

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings

Candles

Many years ago, this candle blessed our family with a miracle. Our house, our Casita, came to life with magic!

Abuela Madrigal in Encanto

Candles

Only when you're stupid, can life be boring.

Horst Wolfram Geißler

Foolishness Boredom

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

Robert Plant

Boredom

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

HK-47 in Star Wars Games - Knights of the Old Republic

Boredom Curiosity

Frustration and boredom are great motivators to seek out other pleasures. Human behavior is quite predictable.

Virginia Wilson in 1899 - Season 1 Episode 3

Boredom Frustration

My father used to tell me that boredom indicates the lack of inner ressources.

Stannis Baratheon in Game of Thrones - Season 5 Episode 4

Boredom

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

Marley & Me

Animals Dogs

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain

Humanity Gratitude Animals Dogs

I am NOT telling you to be aggressive! I am telling you to stay in control. Be calm and assertive!

Cesar Millan (Rudelführer, Hundetrainer)

Dogs

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

Animals Dogs

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Kinky Friedman

Love Money Animals Dogs

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

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