“You are from New York therefore you are just naturally interesting.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“It was a feeling like I’ve never felt before,’ he remembers. ‘I couldn’t really hear anything, but this rumble was unusual. Later I would realize it was the impact of the first plane.’ ‘When I got out a few minutes later I could see that where Windows on the World was there was a fire. The extent of…”— Michael Lomonaco, listverse.com
“Every time I come to New York, I remember how powerful the spirit of this city is. Especially today. NYC, I love you.”— Ellen Degeneres, gossipcop.com
“It was the most terrifying, the most heartbreaking day. I was on a plane the evening before it happened, September 10. I was in Los Angeles, and all I wanted was to get back to my home — New York.”— Al Pacino, businessinsider.com
“I lived in lower Manhattan at the time. So I just remember walking out of my apartment and seeing it and then going back in and watching CNN 'cause I was so hungry for information, trying to figure out what’s going on.”— Matt Damon, businessinsider.com
“It took everything that I knew — not just as a journalist — but as a husband, and a father, and citizen to get through that day.”— Tom Brokaw, businessinsider.com
“For me, the normal process when you lose loved ones is you take time to grieve and take time away from some of the things you do on a daily basis and you pay tribute to those people that lost their lives. To me, that meant not playing football that week.”— Vinny Testaverde, amazon.com
“As a New Yorker, it's very intense. I've never really spoken about this before but I was in New York on September 11 and I watched the Towers fall with all my girlfriends from the roof of our school. The whole city was covered in ashes.”— Lady GaGa, businessinsider.com