Quotes about Manhattan

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Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of — Herman Wouk, Don't Stop the Carnival
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table t — Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That d — Laura Anne Gilman
But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cut — John dos Passos
When I think of New York City, I think of all the girls, the Jewish girls, the Italian girls, the Irish, Polack, Chinese — Irwin Shaw, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
I'm older now, I'm a man getting near middle age, putting on a little fat and I still love to walk along Fifth Avenue at — Irwin Shaw, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
People who want to make a million borrow a million first — Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend in — Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow? — Jennifer Flackett, Little Manhattan: The Movie Novel
It was a brave city, she decided, eyeing them. Brave in its other sense; not courageous, so much as outstanding, command — Cornell Woolrich, Tonight, Somewhere in New York: The Last Stories and an Unfinished Novel
One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked out the — Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive. — Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
The most glorious hour in Manhattan was when twilight fell in sheets across the Great Lawn. Bands of blue turned darker — Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic
To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that — G.G. Collins, Atomic Medium
Better off dead than giving in — not taking what you want.
Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious — Becky Cooper, Mapping Manhattan: A Love (And Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers
I had a party to plan, reminders to send, some positive PR to get out, L.A. travel plans to take care of and now a bit o — Lola Dodge, Angel
We weren't so much oil and vinegar as a lit match and napalm. — Lola Dodge, Temptress
What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a m — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities