Yuppies Quotes
22 quotes by 18 authors
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Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.
— William Kristol
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The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.…
— John Zorn
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Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?
— Frank Zappa
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A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.
— Mort Sahl
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You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
— Julian Casablancas
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Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing,…
— John Shelton Reed
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I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.
— Frank Zappa
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I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally…
— Sarah Wayne Callies
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I…
— Patricia Arquette
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and…
— Abel Ferrara
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
— Abel Ferrara
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I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play…
— John Michael Higgins
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide…
— Tom Petty
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Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.
— Lloyd Kaufman
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The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
— Alfred Adler
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If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the…
— Martin Cruz Smith
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The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our…
— Gus Van Sant
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I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
— John Zorn
Who Wrote These Yuppies Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 22 Yuppies Quotes as follows: