#york

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#choice #come #comfortable #english #feel

Even ivory towers need central heating. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#new-york-times-review #poetry #satire #satire

I hate Brooklyn ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#hate #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments #new-york-city #bones

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering. ↗

— James Buchan

#blew #center #conveyed #least #messages

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#new-york-city #literary-criticism

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#new-york-city

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#form-of-address #formality #london #madam #miss

New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact arena the gladiator, the evangelist, the promoter, the actor, the trader and the merchant. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky. ↗

— E.B. White

#art

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#bought #brown #buried #down #down the road

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#new-york-city #new-york-city