York Quotes

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
-Albert Einstein

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping."
-Orville Wright

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
-Orville Wright

"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoo."
-William Shakespeare

"I think the New York shows have handled [September 11] really well. As long as it's honest, I don't see a problem. And we have to be honest so we can have a cultural debate across the country about what to do."
-Neal Baer

"David thought people would be disgusted by him, ... but he was stopped on the streets of New York by people who said 'You have such courage for trying to stop this practice.' The positive feedback made him feel so good. He just blossomed because of this."
-John Colapinto

"The three most restrictive states are Connecticut, New Jersey and New York which prohibit the use of hand-help phones while driving. So in those states, you can use a hands free device, but you just can't use the hand held phone."
-Matt Sundeen

"When Randy went there and played there, he revived the Canisius program. You can't say enough about what he's done there. That program is giving lacrosse fans around Western New York a lot of pride."
-Darris Kilgour

"In the downturn I foresee, no market will be immune. But New York will weather the decline better than other markets."
-Doug Kass

"It's very hard to have fun on a Saturday in New York City."
-Michael Burke

"As a social service agency, I don't see a slackening, ... After 9/11, we cut off solicitation to New York and D.C., but the giving has come back. I don't believe our success or failure will be determined by these natural disasters."
-Robert Sweeney

"Vendor deliveries improved a little from last month and all of it indicates that the business climate is favorable for Western New York."
-William Ellis

"When we saw this building, we said, 'Oh, a New York City loft building in Bangor. That's the one,'."
-Paula Beall

"The market followed New York only in very general terms today, sometimes distancing, sometimes getting closer. It was very calm."
-Marco Basaglia

"There were wonderful sections of Winnipeg that you could play for New York easy."
-Patrick Swayze

"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

"I knew he was going to get jail time on the back end in New York. The main reason for the bulk of his sentence being probation was to pay back the victims."
-Caroline Shepherd

"When New York needed Mrs. Clinton to fight for veterans and veterans benefits, where was she? I know where I was. I was fighting for New York."
-Rick Lazio

"He got punched two or three times. He was taken to New York University Hospital. At the hospital, he indicated it was both of them who hit him."
-Bruce Regenstreich

"I don't think you have to be deaf, dumb and blind to realize the diversity of even the most diverse firms in Nashville falls behind places like New York and San Francisco. The solution is not to apologize for it, but to work hard to make it better."
-Ralph Davis

"He always had a big heart. Little kids would want him to sign their shirts, and he enjoyed doing that. He knew what it was like. It wasn't easy growing up for him. People helped him out. He's given back, because he knows in his heart he could have gotten lost on the streets in New York."
-Pete Gillen

"Boutique distributors are very often based in New York City, they specialize in American independent and foreign films and young independent directors."
-Greg Dean Schmitz

"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
-John Jay Chapman

"When you walk off the train from New York, you see this dirt parking lot with deep ruts and tractor-trailers with graffiti on them. Welcome to New Brunswick."
-Bill Bray

"The worst. New York state is now farther away from complying with (the act) than any other state."
-Dan Seligson

"I won't be surprised if the New York fans treat the Saints the same way we were treated in Kansas City — before the game."
-Shaun Williams

"We will see seasonable weather for the next couple days. On Wednesday and Thursday it will be a bit colder. Once we get to Friday and the weekend some of the warmth from the western U.S. will come eastward and we'll see highs in the low to mid 40s in New York and Boston."
-Joel Burgio

"Hip-hop was born in New York but it's now a global phenomenon."
-Valeska Hilbig