No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. Votes: 4
Michael BloombergGiven New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. Votes: 3
Fred WilsonIn New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. Votes: 3
Charlotte Perkins GilmanI had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City. Votes: 3
Colum McCann'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School. Votes: 3
Gail Carson LevineAn interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers. Votes: 3
Garrison KeillorEIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School. Votes: 3
Gail Carson LevineI think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin. Votes: 3
Alex RodriguezI think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City. Votes: 3
Jane KrakowskiNew York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets. Votes: 3
Nancy PickardIn New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours. Votes: 3
George D. PrenticeNew York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined. Votes: 3
Shawn AmosLiving in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants. Votes: 3
Andy WarholHowever, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. Votes: 3
John GuareI grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working. Votes: 3
J. C. ChandorIn New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space. Votes: 3
Judith StoneI'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. Votes: 3
Jessica HagedornMy family often travels to New York City during the holidays, and that's always a good time. Votes: 3
Sara ShepardAfter 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera. Votes: 3
Lauren WorshamNew York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains? Votes: 3
David LettermanThe Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City. Votes: 3
Mario BataliI went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler. Votes: 3
Judd NelsonThe bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City. Votes: 3
Van JonesI went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler Votes: 3
Judd NelsonI was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. Votes: 3
Eric MaskinNew York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. Votes: 3
Colson WhiteheadI was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then. Votes: 3
Michaela ConlinMy dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? Votes: 3
Henny YoungmanThere were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports. Votes: 3
Phife DawgNew York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Votes: 3
Frank Lloyd WrightNew York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home. Votes: 3
Glenway WescottI was married to a dancer who had a dance company in New York City, and she toured. Votes: 3
John CullumNew York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. Votes: 3
Michael MooreNew York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty. Votes: 3
Pharoahe MonchI primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping. Votes: 3
Waris AhluwaliaI am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job. Votes: 3
Hoodie AllenNew York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition. Votes: 3
Takashi MurakamiNew York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from. Votes: 3
Fran LebowitzI love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it. Votes: 3
Mike MyersAnd what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. Votes: 3
John GuareIt was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress. Votes: 3
David LettermanI am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. Votes: 3
Bob KaneWhen you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do. Votes: 3
Willie GeistI was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic. Votes: 3
Lesli Linka GlatterI'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are. Votes: 3
Elisabeth RohmI live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. Votes: 3
Spike LeeEbola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!' Votes: 3
Bill MaherAs for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. Votes: 3
Pearl S. BuckNew York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.
Baratunde ThurstonIf I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career
Lenny BruceI didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.
Greta GerwigNew York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.
Isaac SternFor in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
Evelyn Waugh