Best New Yorker Quotes
100 New Yorker quotes by 90 unique authors
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It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up…
— Pete Seeger
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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…
— Jason Alexander
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New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City,…
— David Duke
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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…
— Carl Paladino
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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…
— Brendan Gill
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My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.
— Richard Avedon
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How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
— Leonard Slatkin
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
— R L Stine
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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…
— Chris Ware
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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…
— Dylan Walsh
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If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make…
— Jennifer Weiner
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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…
— Dave Barry
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Technically, I'm a New Yorker.
— Charlie Day
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I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
— Kara DioGuardi
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I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.
— Hope Davis
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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…
— Adam Gopnik
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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…
— Laurie Anderson
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I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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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…
— Edmund Wilson
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It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
— Alan Dershowitz
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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…
— William Shawn
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Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
— Robert Moses
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
— Daniel Alarcon
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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…
— Sloane Crosley
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place…
— Al Franken
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90 authors contributed a total of 100 New Yorker Quotes, led by these top contributors: