Quotes of: Yorkers Keyword

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Johnny Carson

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Dorothy Parker

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

Binyavanga Wainaina

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Diane Mott Davidson

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

Andy Roddick

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.

Robert Mankoff

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

Toby Young

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

Jim Walsh

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.

Laurie Anderson

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

Leonard Slatkin

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

Michael Chabon

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

George Pataki

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 also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Russell Baker

I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.

Howard Hawks

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

Clark Gregg

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.

Christine Quinn

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

Christine Quinn

Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

Corey Stoll

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 Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Jason Alexander

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.

David Remnick

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.'

David Sedaris