Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Well, I'm kind of an urban girl, I like big cities. I like New York, I like London, I like L.A. I like people, I get lonely, really, really easily. But, I think it was good. It was very different and I think that's good.

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

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

New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.

The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.

We must get out of materialism.

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.

I'm a creature of the New York City streets.

Yeah, I guess I'm economical. Not because I try, but because I'm really not that interested in shoes.