Subject: Places » New York City

New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

I really don't like living there; I have to for health reasons; I'm very paranoid, and New York's the only place where my fears are justified.

American comedian

Police: Bank Robber Had Shopping Addiction

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

1. Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach. 2. A free agent is anything but. 3. Whatever can go to New York will..

A city where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

(1885 –1974) American cartoonist, humor writer & radio personality

The smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

(1925 – 2005) television host

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number seventy-nine.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

I love New York – it's the only place where if you look at anyone long enough, they'll eventually spit.

(1964 – ) Canadian stand-up comedian, actress & television host

1. Anything done while honking your horn is legal.
2. You may park anywhere if you turn your four-way flashers on.
3. A red light means the next six cars may go through the intersection.

New York is not Mecca… it just smells like it.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

(1925 – 2005) television host

There is no room for amateurs… even in crossing the streets.

(1934 – ) American actor

I moved to New York for my health; I’m paranoid, and New York was the only place where my fears were justified.

New York… when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910) American writer

You could go out at four in the morning, after a nuclear bomb destroys the entire eastern seaboard, and the Triborough Bridge would be jammed.

(1960 – ) American comedian

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

In New York every rainbow has an empty pot of gold at the end with a chalk outline of a dead leprechaun.

American radio and television personality, comedian & speaker

The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City.

(1962 – ) American political satirist, writer, television host & comedian

I just flew in from New York City, and boy is my middle finger tired.

comedian