Top 17 Yuppies Quotes & Sayings

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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 City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

'Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

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?

I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?

The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

The '90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the '90s than they were in the '80s. The '90s was Ecstasy, the '80s was yuppies. There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the '90s.

Pete Townshend keeps fooling us again, selling Who songs to yuppies hungry for SUVs.

If hotels are replacing nightclubs, then they're replacing nightclubs for yuppies.

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 still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

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 to any objective other than that of change and advertising.

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 models.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

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. I’m not striving for happiness, I’m trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you’re doing, working and working until you feel it’s finished. And that’s an interesting point too, that you’ve got to know when to stop. Sometimes there’s a magical moment when everything comes together.