Subject: Places » New York City (Page 2)

The only cultural advantage L.A. has over New York is that you can make a right turn on a red light.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I’ve only been a New Yorker for ten years but the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

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

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

A city where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

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

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

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

Police: Bank Robber Had Shopping Addiction

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

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

comedian

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

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

Running for senator in New York is like bobbing for piranhas.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

(1908 – 1999) English 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

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

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist

Three o’clock in the morning, you can get truck tires, falafel and a bag of heroin – in the same store.

(1968 – ) American stand-up comedian, radio personality, author & actor

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

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

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

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host