The Devil's Dictionary
Infidel : in New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
Comden Betty and GREEN Adolph 1919- and 1915-
‘New York, New York'
New York, New York, a helluva town,
The Bronx is up but the Battery's down,
And people ride in a hole in the ground:
New York, New York, It's a helluva town.
Dewing Thomas W.
Why, if you're not in New York you are camping out.
Khrushchev Nikita 1894-1971
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
Miller Arthur 1915-
A View from the Bridge
This is Red Hook, not Sicily ... This is the gullet of New
York swallowing the tonnage of the world.
Morley Christopher 1890-1957
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Morley Christopher 1890-1957
A town that has no ceiling price,
A town of double-talk;
A town so big men name her twice,
Like so; ‘N'Yawk, N'Yawk.'
Pritchett V.S. 1900-1997
The word for New York is activity.
Rand Ayn 1905-1982
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Rosenberg John D.
New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past, disowning it whenever it can.
Millstein Gilbert
He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.
Pritchett V.S. 1900-1997
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.