The best quotes about 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.

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

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.

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

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.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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.

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.'

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

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

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

When you live on a tiny island like Manhattan, the odds of bumping into the one who broke your heart are incredibly high. The odds of bumping into him when you look like shit are even higher.

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

When the darkness fell, New York City became something else, any old Sinatra song notwithstanding. Bad things happened in the night, on the streets of that other city. Noir York City.

Anything else, mom? You want me to mow the lawn? Oops! I forgot, New York, No grass.

This is New York City, don't get close to the neighbours. You nod at them politely in the hall, you call the cops if you haven't seen them in a while and you smell something funny and that's it!