Manhattan was a river of men flowing past my door and when I was thirsty, I drank.
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Quotes tagged ‘Manhattan’
It's a ghost town out there.
I'm sick of sleeping with these insipid Manhattan debutantes. Nothing shocks them anymore.
Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips. As the jukebox teases, watch my sistas throat the heartbreak, inhaling bassline, cracking backbone and singing thru hips. Like something boneless, we glide silent, seepi…
Manhattan, Bronx, disco, the get down, moving up, moving out. We made it this far. Just keep loving me and I promise it’s gonna all be all right. ‘Cause all we gotta do is love each other, right?
— Sam Bromell, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com
Peralta: This envelope contains my inheritance from my uncle, he died a year ago. He was so rich, he had a whole room in his house just to eat in. Gina: You mean like a dining room? Peralta: Yeah. But in Manhattan.
— Michael Schur, Daniel J. Goor, Jake Peralta, Andy Samberg, imdb.com
When I was growing up, I was so disruptive in school and had so many emotional problems, behavioral problems, that the school officials told my parents, you know, you're going to have to—to keep David in school, you're going to have to take him to a child psychologist. They made some kind of arrange…
This is ridiculous. If I'm going to die, I want to die in Manhattan.
— Kater Gordon, Matthew Weiner, Pete Campbell, Vincent Kartheiser, imdb.com
There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there…
I want to be in Manhattan like everybody else, but at what cost? I can do a lot more creative good work in other cities.
The elevation difference between the Marianas Trench & Mount Everest’s summit is a mere 12 miles. Manhattan is a mile longer.
Whole swaths of the city defy current zoning rules. In Manhattan alone, roughly two out of every five buildings are taller, bulkier, bigger or more crowded than current zoning allows, according to data compiled by Stephen Smith and Sandip Trivedi.