#25
"Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs".
-- Greg Boyle
#24
"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
-- Marylin Monroe
#23
"The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost."
-- Murray Kempton
#22
"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."
-- Andy Goldsworthy
#21
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."
-- Federico Garcia Lorca
#20
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
- Albert Schweitzer
#19
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
—Coco Chanel
#18
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
-- Mahatma Gandhi
#17
“You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.”
― Jennifer Echols, Love Story
#16
"Neon heart, day-glow eyes
The city lit by fireflies
They're advertising in the skies
And people like us"
-- U2, "The City of Blinding Lights"
#15
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#14
"I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'"
-- John Landis
#13
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
― Tom Wolfe
#12
“When its 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”
— Neil Simon
#11
"I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white."
-- Paris Hilton
#10
"As soon as someone is coming from New York, I automatically think I have to get dressed up."
-- Susan Isaacs
"As soon as someone is coming from New York, I automatically think I have to get dressed up."
-- Susan Isaacs
#9
"Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer."
-- Donna Summer
"Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer."
-- Donna Summer
#8
“It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home from Albany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t prepared to deal with it, move to Miami.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Dangerous
#7
"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book — and does."
-- Groucho Marx
#6
“Sometimes I feel as if I’m working in a field that’s disappearing right under my feet."
-- Robert Caro
#5
"I really want a Christmas in New York one year, when it's snowing. Like, it's Christmas morning, and you have a fight with someone, and you run down the street, and it's snowing, and you can't find them."
-- Courtney Barnett
#4
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
-- Le Corbusier
#3
"In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man."
-- Al Sharpton
#2
“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.”
― Ryan Adams
#1
"I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”
― Rick Riordan
"I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”
― Rick Riordan
