The best Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

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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

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

Art

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

Art Science

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

Art Truth Politicians

Art is a way of survival.

Art

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

Children & Childhood Art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

Art

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Andy Warhol

Art Photography Pictures

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

Art Daily Routine

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde

Art

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Aretha Franklin

Art Self-Confidence Quotes to think about

Every time you kiss me, it's like sunshine and whiskey.

Frankie Ballard - Sunshine & Whiskey

Whiskey

Look, for the last time: We have nothing to protect but our honor. So you can take your cheap horse piss that you call "whiskey" which, by the way, is spelled without an "e" and is nothing compared to a Single Malt Scotch and you can go fk yourself.

Merlin in Kingsman - The Golden Circle

Whiskey

They say God invented whiskey to stop the Irish from rulin' the world.

Irish in Red Dead Redemption

Ireland Whiskey St. Patrick's Day

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Mark Twain

Alcohol Whiskey

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

Ava Gardner

Smoking Whiskey

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Music Sad Quotes

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

Music

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

Music Memories

"Ah, music"' he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Music

Music is reflection of self

Eminem - Sing For The Moment, Album: The Eminem Show

Music

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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