The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: new-york new-york-city
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.
Helen KellerTags: new-york-city
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.
Ayn RandTags: new-york new-york-city
One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.
Terry PratchettTags: new-york-city neil-gaiman shoehorn-with-teeth they-might-be-giants
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
Truman CapoteTags: new-york-city cities
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Peter ShafferTags: art metaphor new-york-city london
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor temptation new-york-city
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
Woody AllenTags: humor new-york-city
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
Dorothy ParkerTags: survival new-york-city twilight esquire
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
John UpdikeTags: humor new-york-city
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