Subject: Places » New York City

The smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

(1925 – 2005) television host

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

The only cultural advantage L.A. has over New York is that you can make a right turn on a red light.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

Police: Bank Robber Had Shopping Addiction

I really don't like living there; I have to for health reasons; I'm very paranoid, and New York's the only place where my fears are justified.

American comedian

I love New York – it's the only place where if you look at anyone long enough, they'll eventually spit.

(1964 – ) Canadian stand-up comedian, actress & television host

1. Anything done while honking your horn is legal.
2. You may park anywhere if you turn your four-way flashers on.
3. A red light means the next six cars may go through the intersection.

A city where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

(1885 –1974) American cartoonist, humor writer & radio personality

New York is not Mecca… it just smells like it.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

There is no room for amateurs… even in crossing the streets.

(1934 – ) American actor

I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers… and he hates New York.


1. Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach. 2. A free agent is anything but. 3. Whatever can go to New York will..

Three o’clock in the morning, you can get truck tires, falafel and a bag of heroin – in the same store.

(1968 – ) American stand-up comedian, radio personality, author & actor

The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City.

(1962 – ) American political satirist, writer, television host & comedian

In New York every rainbow has an empty pot of gold at the end with a chalk outline of a dead leprechaun.

American radio and television personality, comedian & speaker

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910) American writer

I moved to New York for my health; I’m paranoid, and New York was the only place where my fears were justified.

I go to New York and I saw a big sign saying “America Loves Smirnoff” and I said to myself, what a country!

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian