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Notable
quotables
New Yorkers are renowned for their thick skins. New Yorkers are the
first to enjoy these not-always complimentary quotes.
  The faces in New York remind
me of people who
played a game
and lost.
Murray Kempton
Give my regards to Broadway,
Remember me to Herald Square.
Tell all the gang at Forty-second
Street that I will soon be there.
George M. Cohan
It is a miracle that New York
works at all. The
whole thing is
implausible.
E.B. White
This is the town that never
sleeps. That's why we
don't live
in Duluth. That plus I don't know
where Duluth is.
Woody Allen
What else can you expect
from a town that's shut
off
from the world by the ocean on
one side and New Jersey on
the other?
O. Henry
New York...when civilization
falls apart, remember,
we were
way ahead of you.
David Letterman
No matter how many times
I visit this great city,
I'm always
struck by the same thing: a
yellow taxi cab.
Scott Adams (Dilbert)
New Yorkers like to boast that
if you can survive
in New York,
you can survive anywhere. But
if you can survive anywhere,
why live
in New York?
Edward Abbey
When it's
3 o'clock in New
York, it's still
1938 in London.
Bette Midler
In Boston they ask, how much
does he know? In New
York, how
much is he worth? In Philadelphia,
who were his parents?
Mark Twain
Every person on the streets
of New York is a type.
The city is
one big theater where everyone
is on display.
Jerry Rubin
I moved to New York City for
my health. I'm
paranoid and it
was the only place where my
fears were justified.
Anita Weiss
The crime problem in New York
is getting really
serious. The other
day the Statue of Liberty had both
hands up.
Jay Leno
New Yorkers say “excuse me”
as a command.
Attributed to more
than one person
The New York telephone
directory is my favorite book.
No plot, but what an amusing
cast of characters.
Attributed to more
than one person
New Yorkers view stop lights
as a video-game
challenge.
Attributed to more
than one person
Manhattan is 11 miles long
and 2 hours wide.
Attributed to more
than one person
You can tell an out-of-towner.
He walks looking up,
the local,
down.
Attributed to more
than one person
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