75 Fifth Avenue Quotes
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Famous Fifth Avenue Quotes
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. — Will Durant
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. — Carl Jung
Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts. — O. Henry
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand
On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark — Big L
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. — Ayn Rand
No one comes to New York and says 'We've got to check out Times Square and Spa Castle!' — Joe Gatto
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. — Johnny Carson
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. — Lewis H. Lapham
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. — Neil Simon
I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out. — Lisa Snowdon
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. — Warren Buffett
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. — James Van Der Beek
I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo. — Big L
Short Fifth Avenue Quotes
- New York, the nation's thyroid gland. — Christopher Morley
- I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet — Teyana
- I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. — Carrie Fisher
- This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex. — Dan Rather
- Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit. — Lil' Kim
- The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. — Roland Barthes
- How can you be organized when you're in Times Square? — Mary-Kate Olsen
Fifth Avenue Image Quotes
Madison Avenue Quotes
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. — Marshall McLuhan
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. — Anthony Holden
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X. — Dick Gregory
Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer. — Helen Caldicott
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. — Sharon Gless
If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times. — Kristin Davis
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. — Norman Lear
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated more and more with the help of Madison Avenue. — Erich Fromm
Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure. — Marshall McLuhan
Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue. — Terence McKenna
Avenue Quotes
I could stand in the middle Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. — Donald Trump
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. — Jason Alexander
I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of. — Rick James
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. — Emo Philips
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. — Banksy
On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels. — Helen Garner
A sound money, on the other hand, makes service valuable to others the only avenue open for prosperity to anyone, thus concentrating society’s efforts on production, cooperation, capital accumulation, and trade. — Saifedean Ammous
If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined. — Harlan Cleveland
Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you. — Howard Hughes
When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression. — Robby Krieger
People Writing About Fifth Avenue
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Ayn Rand |
983 | 7179 |
 Big L |
26 | 985 |
 Will Durant |
173 | 1803 |
 Carl Jung |
804 | 13370 |
 O. Henry |
93 | 816 |
 Joe Gatto |
60 | 1 |
More Fifth Avenue Quotes
I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York. — Sting
My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures. — Alfred Stieglitz
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. — Jean Pigozzi
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done. — Gisele Bundchen
All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue. — Rufus Wainwright
Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut. — Will Cuppy
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. — Sara Blakely
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. — Spencer Bachus
There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding. — Jules Romains
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. — Rick Riordan
Who voted for Trump? Who are these people who, as he famously said, would let him shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still support him? It's people who want too strong a leader, who would do what that leader tells them. Similar to the Europeans following Mussolini and Hitler. There's a streak in humanity that likes that kind of leader. That's Trump's core. Authoritarianism. — John Dean
If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago. — Fareed Zakaria
I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. — Anthony Trollope
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. — Joseph Campbell
I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks. — Caroline Rhea
Retailing has become fiercely competitive. Today there are many large global fashion companies who have opened up mono-brand stores in major cities around the world. When I first opened my boutique in New York, in 1985, there were almost no other European luxury brands present with their own stores. Now Fifth Avenue is packed with huge stores from major Italian and French labels. — Giorgio Armani
I think there is a core of Trump supporters who, as he said during the campaign, he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue. They are not rattled by anything they have seen. They're sticking with him, so they're happy to sort of see him back out there being Trump. — Ruth Marcus
One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having. — Ella Baker
Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue. — Vladimir Nabokov
I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue. I had to do the Calvin Klein show without the tooth. — Kate Moss
I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices. — Carolyn Wells
I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas. — Dan Jenkins
I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever. — Clare Boothe Luce
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking. — Anna Quindlen
Go to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, I think it's the eighth floor, and it's just a department called 'Woman.' It's rather devastating. You've never seen such hideous clothes in your entire life. I mean, it's simply appalling. Thank God there are no windows on that floor, because if I were a size 18, I'd throw myself right out the window [after seeing those clothes]. It's insulting what these designers do to these women. — Tim Gunn
I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab. — Benedict Cumberbatch
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. — Anna Godbersen
She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her. — J. D. Salinger
So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget. — Tom Wolfe
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