#new york

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#new #new york #paint #rather #york

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#enjoy #i #i do #most #much

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. ↗

— Barack Obama

#actually #afghanistan #ago #al #attacked

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#euphoria #new #new york #things #two

Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York. ↗

— Andy Richter

#because #celebrity #column #easier #i

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. ↗

— Burton Richter

#born #child #elder #fanny #i

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#also #brilliantly #broadway #dancing #daniel

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#agricultural #because #cable #censors #confirm

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#auditioned #back #because #center #come

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#fan #harvey #hear #his #i