80 Times Square Quotes

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Famous Times Square Quotes

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square? — Mary-Kate Olsen

No one comes to New York and says 'We've got to check out Times Square and Spa Castle!' — Joe Gatto

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. — Will Durant

New York, the nation's thyroid gland. — Christopher Morley

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. — Ayn Rand

New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York. — Chloe Sevigny

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. — Johnny Carson

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.' — Robert De Niro

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. — Milos Forman

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

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again. — Roger Taylor

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again. — Roger Andrew Taylor

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. — Neil Simon

Short Times Square Quotes

  • I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating — Mike Tyson
  • 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
  • By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. — Carl Sandburg
  • How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ? — P. T. Barnum
  • If you're not in New York, you're camping out. — Thomas E. Dewey
  • I watched the mighty skyline fall — Billy Joel
  • This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying. — William Kunstler
  • New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count — Tommy Hilfiger
  • When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere. — Jimmy Breslin
  • I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig
Times square quote One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.

New York Times Square Quotes

The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country? — John Rocker

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America. — Dhani Jones

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square. — Alessia Cara

Times square quote Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine wh
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.

L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps. — Jimmy Fallon

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed. — Charlie Chaplin

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the Examiner for the first time. — Simon Armitage

Times square quote Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.
Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.

In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota. — Frankie Boyle

There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move. — David Letterman

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do. — Eric Holder

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More Times Square Quotes

This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex. - Dan Rather quote

This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex. — Dan Rather

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. — Paul A. Freund

Times square quote Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy. — Harry Styles

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted — Nicholas D. Kristof

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. — Jennifer Garner

Times square quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will ta
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing. — Joe Strummer

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square. — David Wilkerson

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up. — Edward Carpenter

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence. — Ma Jian

I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it. — Fred Astaire

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull. — Rem Koolhaas

Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can't go very far wrong. — Sayings

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. — Mark Twain

E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared — Albert Einstein

But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square — Puff Daddy

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. — Jonathan Larson

Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message. — Pema Chodron

With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive. — John Gielgud

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!' — Tom Waits

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization. — Peter Mandelson

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. — Howard Staunton

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square! — Betty Who

The squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances from the sun. — Johannes Kepler

E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2. Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers von Seinem Energieghalt Abhangig? 1905 — Albert Einstein

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven. — E. M. Forster

Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo! — Rick Riordan

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth. — Kent Conrad

Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love? — Eugene Mirman

For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of sewing is ending. Now is a time for rending, not for the sake of disengaging from culture or retreating from the public square, but so that our salt does not lose its savor. — Sayings

What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square. It's a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It's just a few Jews walking around going, "sup?" — Jon Stewart

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life. — Sam Brownback

I was pretty shocked [having concert in the Madison Square Garden]. It could have gone either way. But I think it's the right time. Nobody does what we do with taking the visuals and making it a complete rock 'n' roll show with the really good songs. Nobody's done that in a long time. — Vince Neil

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