Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Cilento

When I was in New York I fell madly in love with an Italian and got married. I couldn't get out of it, and that's when I got a bit ill.

When I was a child growing up in the city, you never saw hawks. It's now quite common to see large birds of prey in New York City.

What this data shows is that New York has the greatest gaps between wealth and poverty in the country.

When we did it in New York, it wasn't quite ready yet. But basically it gave us a stronger visibility in New York and really put the piece out there to a number of people.

Greg Schiano

When we got here, we declared an area we wanted to recruit. That was the state of Rutgers - the tri-state area and South Florida. We really didn't have much success in New York and Long Island at first. The whole Metropolitan area is critical to our success. We're doing everything we can to make New York and New Jersey one.

We can do better than a mayor who cuts sweetheart deals with developers at a time of a crisis in affordable housing. . .better than a mayor who let 100,000 New Yorkers slip into poverty.

We felt it was only right that the focus of giving be made to organizations helping Katrina victims, especially when New York was given so much support in the wake of Sept. 11.

We believe we had developed an approach that first protects the rights of New York voters, while also providing disability access at polling sites.

We believe we are a team that can succeed in East Los Angeles and New York City, but we also can succeed in places like Columbus and Salt Lake,

We believe today's lawsuit will help ensure that New York voters enjoy the benefits of these important reforms.

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

George Steinbrenner

We're going to honor him and welcome him. We're going to give him a New York Yankees welcome.

Unfortunately, New Yorkers know firsthand the anguish associated with such a horrific disaster, but we also know there is great strength and generosity from so many willing to help those in need. As we have proved in the past, we are a resilient and determined country. It is the Yankees' hope -- and expectation -- that the best fans in the world will follow the lead of so many others in giving of themselves at a time when so much is needed.

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Diana Ross

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

With New York doing what it is doing and technology stocks strong, people in Tokyo have got slightly more interested in the stock market.

We're going to concentrate on long haul, point-to-point service between large markets. Boston, Washington and New York are the big ones on the East Coast. I'm not saying those are the exact routes, but that's the general direction.

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

We're hoping if the dumpling-eating challenge is successful, ... it will make our event the premier dumpling-eating event in the New York area, sort of like what Coney Island is to Nathan's.

Chris Matthews

We're awaiting a news conference at the bottom of the hour. New York City Police-

Alan Hovhaness

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

Alan Greenspan

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Brien

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

Alain Resnais

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Al Sharpton

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

Al Leiter

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

Al McGuire

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

Chris Christie

This is part of the president's problem. Where's Barack Obama been when the crime rate and the murder rate in Chicago has gone up in 18 percent? Where has he been when the murder rate in New York is up 11 percent? Instead he and liberals like Bill de Blasio and Rahm Emanuel and others, what they're doing is not supporting the police departments, not making sure that they're being supported, and they're letting them do their jobs. And so we have criminals who have easy access to guns.

Chris Christie

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

Chris Christie

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

Chris Carmack

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

Chris Carmack

I felt a certain modicum of success because I had been paid well to be an actor for the first time in my life, but I felt like I had done adolescent work on the show, and stepping into the New York theater arena was the first time I felt like I'd come into my own. I felt like I was proving myself in a gladiatorial arena.

Chloe Sevigny

I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.