Dave Barry Quotes

I always dreamed of living in N.Y.C.

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that.

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.

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

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.

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

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

I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities I've visited, like Madrid, Rome and London, have a lot of similarities and "New York" elements while ... having their own flavor.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

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.

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

New York is such a special place. It's really intense for people because they live here when they're young. On top of the energy of the city there's a visceral experience a lot of people have because it's a time in their lives where they're just absorbing a lot. Things take on a significance that they might not otherwise.

In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

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

I absolutely love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired and it's really busy and it's like the real city and then I come to Miami and I'm just in a happy place.

New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.

Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.