New York Quotes

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

~ Josh Lucas

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

~ Elvis Presley

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.

~ Pico Iyer

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

~ Elizabeth Hardwick

Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room - or online casino - is illegal in New York.

~ Eric Schneiderman

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

~ Michael Bloomberg

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

~ Kenneth Langone

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

~ Kenneth Langone

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

~ Marc Rich

I had a Hebraic wedding in New York, so I'm definitely Jewish.

~ Amar'e Stoudemire