Top 1200 New Yorker Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

Andy was not a hippie or rebel but more like a mischievous child. He was never out to destroy everything. He became a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know, like the media, what's going on around them is a fashion thing that will change to something else.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

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

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.

I like L.A., I really do, but I'm really a New Yorker. In New York, there's a feeling that you're not praised or treated too preciously. No one ever feels too important because someone on the subway will reassure you that you're not.

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

I mostly read online - tech/VC blogs. I also enjoy the 'NY Times', 'Atlantic', 'New Yorker'.

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

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

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.

I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!

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.

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."

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. I think millions of people were forever changed.

One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone like me who's always tried to make a living at it, it's been great, I'm very grateful for it. But at the same time, it's not a subculture-y thing anymore; it's something that's in the New York Times and the New Yorker.

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

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

Like 'Sex and the City' - if you're a New Yorker, you knew half the places they were going to. I want 'The Chi' to feel that way as well.

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.

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

You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. 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.

I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the latest movies on demand that I usually missed at the theater. I love magazines. My top three: Graydon Carter's 'Vanity Fair', Adam Moss' 'New York magazine' and David Remnick's 'New Yorker.'

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, commute endless hours to raise their families in safe, clean neighborhoods. The numbers of non-Americans, especially those from the Third World, are growing, and it is the hard working White New Yorker that pays the bill.

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.

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

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.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

Any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined, Really, here's a guy who refused to sign onto the 9/11 health care act for the cops and firemen. Here's a guy who talks about New York values.

I am a New Yorker! Mass transit is my sweet ride. I know the subway system like the back of my hand.

I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.

I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.

Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played Radio City, and we've played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?

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

I'm always thinking about how what I'm doing is affecting the people around me. As a New Yorker, you have to be that way.

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.

I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.

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

A comfortable retirement should not only be a luxury for the wealthy, but a reality for every New Yorker.

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.

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

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.