Subject: Places » New York City (Page 2)

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

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

(1908 – 1999) English writer

New York… when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

I saw a license plate yesterday that said 'I Miss New York,' so I smashed their window and stole their radio.

(1962 – ) American actor & comedian

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time… most unsolved.

(1925 – 2005) television host

I just flew in from New York City, and boy is my middle finger tired.

comedian

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

(1928 – 2001) American basketball coach

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else; the same with good manners.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

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

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

If Jeffrey Dahmer lived in New York, New Yorkers would have been like, 'Hey, you think that apartment's available?'

comedian, television writer

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

William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910) American writer

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

The first time I ever came into a game there [Yankee Stadium], I got in the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors.

American baseball pitcher

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

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

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..

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

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number seventy-nine.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

A city where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

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