City Dreams Quotes

Nearly everyone says New York is their number one city in the world, don't they? It certainly is mine. But I feel like the ship sailed for me in terms of living in New York because I think you need to live there when you're in your 20s - when you can be poor and energetic and just don't care.

When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

When I got the appetite for more and more theatre, all I could think of was trying to get back to New York.

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

I just feel like I'm made for New York.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

If I could be living anywhere now, it would be in New York. My heart is in that city.

Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

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

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

New York is, like, my dream city.

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.

It was always my dream to live in New York.

Growing up so close to New York City, I always loved going to the city, but I'd be disappointed because songs about New York always made it seem so magical and perfect, and when I was younger, I just thought it was busy and dirty.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this city, that was enough. It became the best teacher I ever had.

I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.

I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N.Y.C.