City Attitude Quotes

Definitely, I have a New York personality.

Chicago prides itself on being a mean city.

I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

In L.A., everybody ain't so nice.

I don't have any bad feelings about L.A.

There's a certain vibe in my hometown; Buffalo is a city that has no illusions.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

I've been living in New York City almost seven years, and my mentality has changed a lot. Just from being in New York this long and going across America, I realize that in New York, nobody really cares. They are just like, "We're New Yorkers." I feel like that is really the way it should be.

I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you.

There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

The funny thing about New York City is that if you hide from her, she's just gonna say, 'Whatever, kid!' and leave you in the dust.