Quotes About New Yorker

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

Eleanor Gordon was the most sophisticated in their crowd. She read The New Yorker.

On Thursday, Farrow was at the venerable New Yorker writer Roger Angell's desk, working frantically to close the Moonves piece, when Kim Masters called from The Hollywood Reporter, saying she was breaking the news about his Moonves exposé, and asked if he wanted to comment.

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

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

A New Yorker can never be beat, Gorham, because he gets right back up again. Remember that.

Within four years, Belmont's name was on the lips of every New Yorker. He was the city's leading investment banker and the hottest thing to hit society-and he was a Jew.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

A fine, fine book, lucid, unsmug, amazingly comprehensive. Reading [it] I felt over and over again that this was the book I had been waiting for. —The New Yorker

I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.

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....History may kill you, it is true, but you have taken the right attitude, you will have been intelligent and humane and suitably melancholy to the end.

The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.

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.

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

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.

I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough.

Smith was the ultimate New Yorker, the ideal candidate for the job of president of the building that would become the very icon of the city. The city was in his bones. He could point out every landmark in town and talk affectionately and knowledgeably about the city and its people.

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

All the benefit that a New Yorker gets out of Kansas is no more than what he might get out of Saskatchewan, the Argentine pampas, of Siberia. But New York to a Kansan is not only a place where he may get drunk, look at dirty shows and buy bogus antiques; it is also a place where he may enforce his dunghill ideas upon his betters.

When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.

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.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.