1. “You haven’t lived until you died in New York.” ― Alexander Woollcott
2. “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.”- Mark Twain
3. “New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the center of the world, the lion’s den.” ― Zubin Mehta
4. “ More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.” ― Marilyn J. Appleberg
5. “Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.” –Albert Camus
6. “People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new.”― Lindsey Kelk
7. “A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.” ― Le Corbusier
8. “What I love about New York is the electricity I feel right away.”- Jack Dorsey
9. “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” ― Nora Ephron
10. “More than anything else, New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.” ― Marilyn J. Appleberg
11. “It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” ― Agatha Christie
12. “That’s the problem with living in New York. You’ve got no New York to run away to.”- Amor Towles
13. “If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” ― Ellen R. Shapiro
14. “London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” — Dorothy Parker
15. “Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.” — Robert Moses
16. “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” ― Milos Forman
17. “When you leave New York, you aren’t going anywhere.”- Jimmy Breslin
18. “I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York. Thank you, God.” ― Ed Koch
19. “Somewhere between living and dreaming is New York.”- Unknown
20. “I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, “There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.” — Robert De Niro
21. “Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” — John Steinbeck
22. “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
23. “Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.” — Joan Didion
24. “New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.” ― Truman Capote
25. “New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something.”-Lindsey Kelk
26. “We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.”- Brooke Shields
27. “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” ― Georgia O’Keefe
28. “When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” ― Ryan Adams
29. “New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it: Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” ― John Steinbeck
30. “It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.” ― Susan Ertz
31. “When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.” ― Jimmy Breslin
32. “The diversity, the food, the culture, the constant change-New York is truly one of the most inspiring places on the planet.”- XXMK
33. “Given New York’s cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.”- Fred Wilson
