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1 " Many in America, as one social historian wrote, 'believed implicitly that New York's social leaders went to bed in full evening dress, brushed their teeth in vintage champagne, married their daughters without exception to shady French counts, and arrayed their poodle dogs in diamond tiaras.'... "
2 " He tipped his head to Ronan and looked warily at Bowser. " Sir." " David, this is Ronan McGuire and his partner, Bowser," Maddy said. " They're two of New York's finest. "
3 " Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to " cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky "
4 " But apart from these lazinesses of logic, what makes the story so tired is the failure of the writer to reach for anything but the nearest cliche'. " Shouldered his way," " only to be met," " crashing into his face," " waging a lonely war," " corruption that is rife," " sending shock waves," " New York's finest," - these dreary phrases constitute writing at its most banal. We know just what to expect. No surprise awaits us in the form of an unusual word, an oblique look. We are in the hands of a hack, and we know it right away, We stop reading. "
5 " I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body. "
― Ayn Rand , The Fountainhead
6 " I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine. "
― P.G. Wodehouse , My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
7 " Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. "
― Marilyn vos Savant
8 " Did you really think I'd steer you wrong?" Then William pointed to the wide-open country beyond the next ridge. " New York's that way. My compass is unerring. "
9 " The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names, their works, their constructions. New York's ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the dispossessed, the depraved, the defective, the recalcitrant. They are the guardian spirits of the urban wilderness in which they lived and died. Unrecognized by the history that is common knowledge, they push invisibly behind it to erect their memorials in the collective unconscious. "
― Lucy Sante
