Quintessentially New York Quotes & Sayings

Just as easy as it was to get, just as easy as it is to lose. I've learned that. — Khali Raymond

So....stop....me. — Karen Marie Moning

We still have your watch.You can have it back tonight.All you need to do is sneak up after dinner, set the tower, and flee the country. Agreed?
Azalea burned with embarrassment as Bramble folded the napkin around the pencil and passed it to Lord Bradford with the rolls. Lord Bradford took it and unfolded it in his lap.His dark eyebrows rose a fraction of an inch. Then he folded the napkin and placed it under his plate. Bramble's yellow-green eyes narrowed. — Heather Dixon

Sure, I may need to take breaks between questions to masturbate, but at least I'll get it done. — Kenya Wright

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot. — Kangana Ranaut

I'd heard "Rhapsody in Blue" a thousand times and it always amazed me. It was so humble and then so bombastic. It was beautiful, bright, and terrifying: old and new, European and American. At times it sounded like Debussy, at times it sounded like Stravinsky, and at times it sounded like the Lower East Side in 1910.
"Rhapsody in Blue" was a quintessentially New York work of art, but it was also about moving from east to west, from the old world to the new... — Moby

Happiness is the best facelift. — Joni Mitchell

Billy's smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa's, for he was simultaneously on foot in Germany in 1944 and riding his Cadillac in 1967. — Kurt Vonnegut

The music that I was playing and writing in those early years, that I was importing to Europe, was quintessentially New York music in a way that I always hoped it would be. I wanted my concert music to be as distinctive as Zappa at the Fillmore East, and I think I ended up doing that. — Philip Glass

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share. — James Maslow

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

On my first day of kindergarten, I bit a kid. Hard. In my defense, he deserved it. — Kat Kruger