Yorker Quotes

101 quotes by 92 authors

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… — Russell Baker
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.… — Michael Bloomberg
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… — David Bowie
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… — Eric Alterman
I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it. — Jay Maisel
I am the young, edgy New Yorker. — Douglas Wilson
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker — Armand Assante
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the… — Fareed Zakaria
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… — Russell Lynes
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. — Brian Setzer
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. — Colson Whitehead
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… — David Sedaris
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. — Laurie Anderson
Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker â€¦ [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of… — Shirley Jackson
If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world. — George Pataki
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. — Pete Hamill
Iâ€™ve always essentially been a New Yorker, — Lawrence Block
The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This… — Robert Warshow
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… — Alma Guillermoprieto
We have a game we play when weâ€™re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on… — Nora Ephron

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