New Yorkers Quotes - Page 3

• I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

  Lanford Wilson

  September 11, Events, September

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• True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

  Jimmy Breslin

  New York, Interesting, World

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• The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking, and it is a way of making everything tolerable, for the assumption of a suitable attitude toward experience can give one the illusion of having dealt with it adequately.

  Robert Warshow

  Attitude, Intelligent, Thinking

  Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Stars, Editors, Analysis

  "Eric Alterman: Pay Anchors Like Journalists Instead Of Hedge Fund Managers" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• 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

  Calling, Uncomfortable, Okay

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• Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

  Russell Lynes

  Sympathy, Real, Heart

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

  Sloane Crosley

  Growing Up, Thinking, Calling

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Used, Ovens, Storage

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• New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

  Delia Ephron

  Country, New York, Who I Am

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• I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

  Douglas Wilson

  Edginess, Young, Edgy

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• The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers

  John Spencer

  Years, Needs, Clinton

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

  Andy Roddick

  Sports, Essence, Central Park

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• I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Thinking, Guarded, Northerners

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• Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.

  Vito Fossella

  New York, Vacation, Cities

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• I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

  Lawrence Block

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• In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

  Pete Hamill

  New York, Ends, Knows

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• Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.

  George Pataki

  Betrayed, Silverstein, Larry

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Islands, America, Looks

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Three

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• You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

  Colson Whitehead

  Real

  Colson Whitehead (2007). “The Colossus of New York”, p.4, Anchor

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• Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, Pain, Real

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

  David Levithan

  Odds, Order, Eight

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• I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Friendship, Children, Believe

  "Bill Clinton backs gay marriage bill" by Jennifer Epstein, www.politico.com. May 05, 2011.

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• People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that's not going to happen in the same way in London.

  Theo James

  Night, Thinking, People

  "Theo James (AKA Mr. Pamuk on Downton!) On His New Show Golden Boy, NYC, and More". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. February 26, 2013.

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• 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.

  Lauren Bacall

  New York, Childhood, Riding

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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