#york

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#been #big #big time #city #ever

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#actually #after #am #anywhere #blah

The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#cities #crisis #economic #economic crisis #financial

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#captain #city #cup #davis #davis cup

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#florida #grade #i #moved #new

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#common #even #gay #gay marriage #going

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#better #brighter #change #everything #faster

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue. ↗

— James Welch

#dixon #fluke #issue #new #new yorker

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ↗

— E. B. White

#circus #commas #fall #knives #new

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors. ↗

— Edmund White

#editors #empty #ever #first #i