History Quotes / TheBigRottenApple

-->-- '''Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five''', "The Message"

-->-- [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]

-->--'''The Mayor of New York''', ''[[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} Ghostbusters 2]]''

->''"What do you want me to do, go on television and tell 3 million people they have to be ''nice'' to each other? Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's god-given right."

-->--'''The Mayor of New York''', ''Film/GhostbustersTwo''

-->--'''The Mayor of New York''', ''Film/{{Ghostbusters2}}''

->''"You don't understand, there is a maniac trying to kill us!"''
->''"Welcome to New York."''

->''Broken glass everywhere ''
->''People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care ''
->''I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise ''
->''Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice ''
->''Rats in the front room, roaches in the back ''
->''Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat ''
->''I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far ''
->''Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car ''

->''Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up ''
->''To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough! ''
->''You got rats on the west side ''
->''Bed bugs uptown ''
->''What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered.''

->''And so I come to the bottom line. I don’t want to live in a city where a woman advertises for a lost dog and receives dozens of telephone calls from a variety of people saying they are torturing the animal and will continue to do so unless she pays large sums of money; or in a city where I am told I must always have $ 10 in my wallet for possible mugger because without that I will surely be stabbed; or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking in a city where my mailman leaves a slip in my box at Christmas suggesting the size of the tip he expects]]. I shall find some of these things wherever I go, and perhaps all of them, but I don’t think so. Above all I want to get away from [[ApatheticCitizens the indifference of New York]]. I want to care and ─ it sounds implausibly poignant ─ be cared about. The city has seen thousands of us come and go. New York doesn’t give a damn.''

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-->-- '''Frank Castle''', [[Comicbook/ThePunisher The Punisher War Zone]]''

->'''Rennie''': You don't understand, there is a maniac trying to kill us!
->'''Waitress''': Welcome to New York.

->Broken glass everywhere
->People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
->I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise
->Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
->Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
->Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat
->I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
->Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car
-->-- GrandmasterFlash and The Furious Five, ''The Message''

-->"But Marge, New York is a hellhole! And you know how I feel about hellholes!"

->Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
->To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
->You got rats on the west side
->Bed bugs uptown
->What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered.
-->-- Music/TheRollingStones, ''Shattered''

->And so I come to the bottom line. I don’t want to live in a city where a woman advertises for a lost dog and receives dozens of telephone calls from a variety of people saying they are torturing the animal and will continue to do so unless she pays large sums of money; or in a city where I am told I must always have $ 10 in my wallet for possible mugger because without that I will surely be stabbed; or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking in a city where my mailman leaves a slip in my box at Christmas suggesting the size of the tip he expects]]. I shall find some of these things wherever I go, and perhaps all of them, but I don’t think so. Above all I want to get away from [[ApatheticCitizens the indifference of New York]]. I want to care and ─ it sounds implausibly poignant ─ be cared about. The city has seen thousands of us come and go. New York doesn’t give a damn.
-->-- CaskieStinnett, ''Farewell, My Unlovely'', TheAtlanticMonthly, August 1976.

->Welcome to New York. NOW DUCK, MOTHERFUCKER!

->New York feeds on human misery. Gradually, it sucks the life out of us. It's a monster.
-->-- Perrine Valley, ''Manga/{{Mad Bull 34}}''

->I remember the real New York of the 80s, when in a single night you could score some weed, catch a Times Square porno and get stabbed in the neck by a coked up Music/LouReed.
-->--'''Creator/StephenColbert''', ''[[Series/TheColbertReport The Colbert Report December 3 2012]]''

-->-- CaskieStinnett, ''Farewell, My Unlovely'', TheAtlantic, August 1976.

-->--'''StephenColbert''', ''[[Series/TheColbertReport The Colbert Report December 3 2012]]''

-->--'''StephenColbert''', ''[[TheColbertReport The Colbert Report December 3 2012]]''

->I remember the real New York of the 80s, when in a single night you could score some weed, catch a Times Square porno and get stabbed in the neck by a coked up LouReed.

-->-- [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]

-->-- Popular T-Shirt design

-->-- CaskieStinnett, ''Farewell, My Unlovely'', TheAtlantic, August 1976.

->Go ahead, Bite the big apple!
->Don't mind the maggots!

-->-- TheRollingStones, ''Shattered''

->'''Rennie''': "You don't understand, there is a maniac trying to kill us!"
->'''Waitress''': "Welcome to New York."
-->-- ''Film/{{Friday the 13th}} Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan''

->And so I come to the bottom line. I don’t want to live in a city where a woman advertises for a lost dog and receives dozens of telephone calls from a variety of people saying they are torturing the animal and will continue to do so unless she pays large sums of money; or in a city where I am told I must always have $ 10 in my wallet for possible mugger because without that I will surely be stabbed; or in a city where my mailman leaves a slip in my box at Christmas suggesting the size of the tip he expects. I shall find some of these things wherever I go, and perhaps all of them, but I don’t think so. Above all I want to get away from the indifference of New York. I want to care and ─ it sounds implausibly poignant ─ be cared about. The city has seen thousands of us come and go. New York doesn’t give a damn.

-->-- GrandmasterFlash and The Furious Five, ''The Message''

-->-- GrandmasterFlash and The Furious Five, ''TheMessage''