Nycity Quotes & Sayings

I'd get home at 3:30 A.M. from the bar after my shift ended at 1. I'd write jokes, film it, and then sleep. So I did that for two years. — Katie Nolan

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. — Thich Nhat Hanh

My first day of teaching, I got hit in the head with a bandstand & needed 4 stitches. Welcome to #NYCity teaching in the 90s. — Ace Antonio Hall

We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would have different lives, depending on how brave you were, and how ready. Love came to her that day - she was twenty-two - and wanted to take her, and she said no.
Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes? Happiness came that day - she knew nothing - and asked her to say yes and she did not. Why did she assume it would come back again, when there were so many others waiting for it to visit? — Samuel Park

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall. — Cynthia Ozick

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others. — Janet Frame