Yorker Quotes

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

Act, Fall, Victim

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 strange; I never thought I would be.
David Bowie

Amazing, Thought, Strange

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

Sometimes, Rules, Mouth

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
Ed Koch

Live, End, Find

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. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
Michael Bloomberg

Life, Respect, May

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

Home, Live, Grow

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

Stand, Tried, Apologize

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
Nate Silver

Become, Expect, Achieve

I'm a New Yorker, you know.
Edward Norton

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'
George Saunders

Story, Accepted

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.
Sloane Crosley

Here, Grow, Object

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

Happy, Here, Native

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

Art, Homework, Taught

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

Yourself, Until, Started

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.
David Sedaris

Everyone, Treats, Reporter

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 a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.
Eric Alterman

Great, Stars, Times

I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.
Sherri Shepherd

Love, Mean, Honesty

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.
Jennifer Weiner

Forget, Book, Write

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
Susan Sarandon

Family, Everything, York

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

Here, Losing, Leave

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
R. L. Stine

Morning, Real, Sound

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

Woman, Write, Artist

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
Laurie Anderson

Someone, America, Lives

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.
Sigourney Weaver

Living, After, Sometimes

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.
Chris Ware

Movies, Idea, Times

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.
George Pataki

Best, Medical, Someone

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
Abel Ferrara

Live, Nothing, Energy

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.
Hope Davis

Work, Home, Rarely

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
Anthony Weiner

School, Lost, Old

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
Parker Stevenson

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