Nancy Pickard Quotes

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you have so many nationalities that are actually mixed together - it's so multicultural.

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I love New York. I love the people. I love the anonymity.

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

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.

New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.

Paris was a melting pot.

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.

There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

I love New York. I love how integrated it is, how everybody lives together.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.

New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

New York is the only real city-city.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

New York is who I am.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.