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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. -- Don Rickles
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him. -- Fay Wray
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there. -- Crispin Glover
The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city. -- Deborah Kerr
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. -- Walter Tevis
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story. -- Craig L. Rice
I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her. -- Rodney Dangerfield
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette. -- Timothy Levitch
When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa? -- Fay Wray
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. -- Linda Goodman
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.' -- John McGahern
So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate. -- Rick Riordan
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once. -- Taylor Hanson
I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese? They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit. -- Jack Handey
I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else. -- Robert Frost
I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight. -- Takeru Kobayashi
The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window. -- Bill Buford
When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty; it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's 'Spider-Man' fights used to happen in and around. -- Dave Gibbons
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic. -- Kenneth Lonergan
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting. -- Richard Hell

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