Manolo Blahnik Quotes

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

I'm attracted to wilderness in any sense. Which is why I'm attracted to New York in a way, because I feel like it's a wilderness of people and textures. Just like, there's so much life and richness here. And you can get lost in it.

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

New York is the great stone desert.

Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.

London is a modern Babylon.

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

That New York energy, when you've got the benefit of great weather, it really is terrific. You look up at that skyline, and the Empire State Building is literally in your eyesight - there's nothing like that.

I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

I run New York City!