Jill Davis Quotes

I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City.

New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

I have a living room full of clothes. It's insane.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

I never thought I would downgrade into a 4,000-square-foot house. It took me about two months to find places to put everything.

I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

I was 17 when I moved to NYC . I'm now 32. But I do know I can't see myself living anywhere else. I love the food, the fashion, art, the intelligence of this city and the people that live in it.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.

The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

It was announced that President Obama and his wife, when they're finished in Washington, are moving to New York City. The guy just can't get enough gridlock.

Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.

I don't like to travel. I go out. When you do stand up, you travel a lot. Just working out. I don't really enjoy it. I like New York. There's nothing really like New York. Everything just becomes a worse version of New York.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Go and change your gown, Mary," Daniel interjected. "I'm partial to gold. If you've a gown in that color, wear it to please me. If not, white will do well enough. I'm wedding you, Lady Mary." Lord Daniel Ferguson caught Lady Mary before she hit the floor. He wasn't at all irritated that his intended had just fainted dead away, and he actually let out a full burst of laughter as he swept Mary up into his arms and held her against his chest. "She's overcome with gratitude, Alec," Daniel called out to his friend. "Aye, Daniel, I can see she is," Alec answered.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.