Quotes about New Yorker

I'm used to driving fast; I'm a New Yorker. Votes: 4

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. Votes: 4

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker. Votes: 4

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day. Votes: 4

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. Votes: 4

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. Votes: 4

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here. Votes: 4

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. Votes: 4

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework. Votes: 4

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. Votes: 4

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons. Votes: 4

One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative. Votes: 4

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be. Votes: 4

I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower. Votes: 4

I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye. Votes: 4

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times. Votes: 4

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker. Votes: 4

As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. Votes: 4

The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying. Votes: 4

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else. Votes: 4

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. Votes: 4

I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. Votes: 4

Technically, I'm a New Yorker. Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker, you know. Votes: 3

I am the young, edgy New Yorker. Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues. Votes: 3

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. Votes: 3

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker. Votes: 3

I’ve always essentially been a New Yorker, Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage. Votes: 3

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker Votes: 3

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me. Votes: 3

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. Votes: 3

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. Votes: 3

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. Votes: 3

I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit. Votes: 3

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry. Votes: 3

I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard. Votes: 3

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded. Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home. Votes: 3

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker. Votes: 3

A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla! Votes: 3

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter. Votes: 3

When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust. Votes: 3

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there. Votes: 3

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' Votes: 3

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic. Votes: 3

A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it. Votes: 3

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers. Votes: 3

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in. Votes: 3

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? Votes: 3

Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers. Votes: 3

You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker. Votes: 3

The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. Votes: 3

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. Votes: 3

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here. Votes: 3

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. Votes: 3

New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. Votes: 3

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three. Votes: 3

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. Votes: 3

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy. Votes: 3

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker. Votes: 3

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family. Votes: 3

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here. Votes: 3

I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker. Votes: 3

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly. Votes: 3

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans. Votes: 3

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker Votes: 3

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11. Votes: 3

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park. Votes: 3

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park Votes: 3

Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker. Votes: 3

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is. Votes: 3

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. Votes: 3

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart. Votes: 3

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become. Votes: 3

I am a music snob, and proud of it. I'm a New Yorker; smugness is my birthright. Votes: 3

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night. Votes: 3

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. Votes: 3

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. Votes: 3

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. Votes: 3

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling. Votes: 3

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. Votes: 3

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. Votes: 3

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. Votes: 3

I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear. Votes: 3

I think sleep is just the most important thing. I think most New Yorkers, especially, don't get enough sleep. Votes: 3

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk. Votes: 3

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place. Votes: 3

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. Votes: 3

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist. Votes: 3

Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best. Votes: 3

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense. Votes: 3

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers. Votes: 3

The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers. Votes: 3

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! Votes: 3

I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. Votes: 3

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality. Votes: 3

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' Votes: 3

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world. Votes: 3

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. Votes: 3

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies. Votes: 3

New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love Votes: 3

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert. Votes: 3

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize. Votes: 3

A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think. Votes: 3

For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling. Votes: 3

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. Votes: 3

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different. Votes: 3

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker. Votes: 3

Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago. Votes: 3

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain. Votes: 3

Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real. Votes: 3

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies. Votes: 3

I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker. Votes: 3

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan. Votes: 3

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist. Votes: 3

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. Votes: 3

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life. Votes: 3

The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts. Votes: 3

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker. Votes: 3

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. Votes: 3

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished. Votes: 3

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering. Votes: 3

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day. Votes: 3

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished. Votes: 3

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] Votes: 3

[Bill Shawn] had always been in The New Yorker immaculately dressed - quietly, immaculately dressed, very soft-spoken. On the phone I could hardly hear him sometimes. Votes: 3

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. Votes: 3

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence. Votes: 3

I submitted a poem last night to The New Yorker. They said it can take up to three months to hear back. I got rejected immediately. Votes: 3

If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year. Votes: 3

The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror. Votes: 3

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. Votes: 3

I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker. Votes: 3

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that. Votes: 3

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself. Votes: 3

Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do. Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do. Votes: 3

I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing. Votes: 3

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development. Votes: 3

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from. Votes: 3

The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime. Votes: 3

Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York. Votes: 3

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections. Votes: 3

I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life. Votes: 3

I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker. Votes: 3

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair. Votes: 3

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts. Votes: 3

David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts. Votes: 3

I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history. Votes: 3

I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor." Votes: 3

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York. Votes: 3

One of the perks of being a New Yorker cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative. Votes: 3

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world. Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that. Votes: 3

It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them. Votes: 3

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway. Votes: 3

We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy. Votes: 3

I have big emotions, and I care deeply about delivering for New Yorkers, and sometimes that means you got to push things forward - and I think New Yorkers know that. Votes: 3

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live. Votes: 3

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch. Votes: 3

In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams - really a top, top artist that the 'New Yorker' was lucky to find and employ. Votes: 3

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. Votes: 3

I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing. Votes: 3

I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker. Votes: 3

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. Votes: 3

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national. Votes: 3

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form. Votes: 3

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. Votes: 3

Thou shalt not live within thy meansNor on plain water and raw greens. If thou must chooseBetween the chances, choose the odd;Read The New Yorker, trust in God; And take short views. Votes: 3

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person. Votes: 3

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about. Votes: 3

I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the 'New Yorker''s Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well. Votes: 3

Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000. Votes: 3

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view. Votes: 3

If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back. Votes: 3

The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter. Votes: 3

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything. Votes: 3

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation. Votes: 3

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich. Votes: 3

After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home. Votes: 3

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years. Votes: 3

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker. Votes: 3

Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely. Votes: 3

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue. Votes: 3

I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons. Votes: 3

I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen is always a nebbish New Yorker. Why shouldn't I be a goofy Glaswegian? Votes: 3

I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my body that even considered staying in Detroit for the rest of my life. Votes: 3

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. Votes: 3

While I'm a New Yorker at heart, and 'Harlem Honey' runs through my veins, Atlanta - its awesome residents and glorious landscapes - has a special place in the hearts of my family and I. Votes: 3

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds. Votes: 3

I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same. Votes: 3

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation Votes: 3

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about. Votes: 3

If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention. Votes: 3

Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.' Votes: 3

Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago - they find a way to just carry on. But you're stressed out. You're worried, you know. Votes: 3

I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good. Votes: 3

My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy. Votes: 3

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press Votes: 3

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved. Votes: 3

If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change. Votes: 3

There were a few nighttime pedestrians on the block, but they continued on their way, dutifully ignoring the zombie vomiting blood out of the back of my car. Good old New Yorkers. They really couldn't care less. Votes: 3

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker. Votes: 3

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing. Votes: 3

The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling. Votes: 3

Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11. Votes: 3

I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is. Votes: 3

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way. Votes: 3

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place. Votes: 3

I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't. Votes: 3

Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about. Votes: 3

The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak. Votes: 3

Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility. Votes: 3

There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train. Votes: 3

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life. Votes: 3

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986] Votes: 3

I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better. Votes: 3

Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir? Votes: 3

I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my friends and family from California feel like I've totally "become a New Yorker." Votes: 3

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all. Votes: 3

Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11. Votes: 3

In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker. Votes: 3

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences. Votes: 3

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead. Votes: 3

I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough. Votes: 3

At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing. Votes: 3

I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.' Votes: 3

I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Votes: 3

I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea. Votes: 3

If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a lot of New Yorker readers are kind of, you know, amateur grammarians and so you do get a lot of that. Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite. Votes: 3

New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them. Votes: 3

I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11 and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life. Votes: 3

New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement. Votes: 3

I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'. Votes: 3

It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town. Votes: 3

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers. Votes: 3

I always have issues. I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker. I think trust is something that comes from the gut. I don't think it's anything specific. I don't think it's anything tangible. Votes: 3

Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker " [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up? Votes: 3

Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it. Votes: 3

I would kind of, you know, go stand next to some unlucky guy and say eventually, Hi, I'm George. You know, I'm with The New Yorker. I'm a liberal. I'm somewhat left of Gandhi. Do you want to talk? And, you know, they always did. Votes: 3

Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can't even locate it any more. Votes: 3

Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again. Votes: 3

The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so. Votes: 3

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason. Votes: 3

The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given his regards to Broadway if he saw how dirty they kept his statue in Duffy Square. New Yorkers walk right by. Nobody cares. Votes: 3

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do. Votes: 3

I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut. Votes: 3

After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that `Bill Shawn will stay here as long as he wants to be here.' Well, he wanted to be here until he died, but he wasn't allowed to. Votes: 3

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.' Votes: 3

I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes. Votes: 3

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan. Votes: 3

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely. Votes: 3

I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like that while I'm writing. But I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here. Votes: 3

I've already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class. Votes: 3

I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again. Votes: 3

Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine. Votes: 3

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers. Votes: 3

I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people. Votes: 3

I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching! Votes: 3

You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help. Votes: 3

Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment. Votes: 3

It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the time. Votes: 3

I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members. Votes: 3

Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published. Votes: 2

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001. Votes: 2

I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.' Votes: 2

I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on the best-seller list, 'Why not me?' Someone has to write for the 'New Yorker,' 'Why not me?' And I didn't really get much positive reinforcement as a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.' Votes: 2