"When you leave New York, you ain't goin' nowhere." - Unknown
" It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story." - Agatha Christie
"The present New Yok is so powerful that the past is lost." -John Jay Chapman
"There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless." -Sex and the 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
"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City." - Spalding Gray
"New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world." - Alistair Cooke
"The thing that impressed me then as now about New York . . . was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant . . . the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak-- and so very, very many." -Theodore Dreiser
"New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, acts differently --they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is." - Henry Ford
"You come to New York to find the ambiance that will evoke your best. You do not necessarily know precisely what that might be, but you come to New York to discover it." - Dr. James Hillman
"A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner." - Jackie Mason
"New York attracts the most people in the world in the arts and professions. It also attracts them in other fields. Even the bums are talented." - Edmund Love
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. " - John Updike
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“Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.” -- Douglas Adams
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