New York City/Quotes
We met in the springtime at a rock-and-roll show —"New York City" by grrl-rock group cub, though you may be more familiar with TMBG's version.
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"New York is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch." —Raymond Solokov
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Ah, summer in New York -- when the rats are mating in Central Park! |
If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish. |
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. |
"It's all painfully obvious to me -- there's nothing wrong with New York that a sound thrashing, a hot bath, and about $20 billion in federally guaranteed loans wouldn't cure." |
New York is real. The rest is done with mirrors. |
Rules for driving in New York: |
New York -- when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. |
New York's such a wonderful city, but at the library the guy was very rude. I said I'd like a card. He said, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him. |
Tourists: have some fun with New York's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking." |
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. |
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.... |
According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime. |
Q: How does a single woman in New York get rid of cockroaches? |
Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey, taxi." Two is, "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdale's?" And three is, "Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound." |
To a Californian, a person must prove himself criminally insane before he is allowed to drive a taxi in New York. For New York cabbies, honesty and stopping at red lights are both optional. —from East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
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To a Californian, the basic difference between the people and the pigeons in New York is that the pigeons don't shit on each other. —from East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
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Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l. |
Dana Scully: You know, on the old mariners' maps, the cartographers would designate uncharted territory by writing "here be monsters." |