• Categories
  • New York Quotes   139
  • The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Weisman Quotes , Running Quotes , New York Quotes
  • Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , New York Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ad Reinhardt Quotes , New York Quotes , School Quotes
  • Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , New York Quotes , Mean Quotes