Yorker Quotes - page 3

I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again. (Carl Paladino)
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. View quote
Daniel Alarcon
If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back. View quote
Daniel Boulud
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
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. View quote
Eric Alterman
If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world. View quote
George Pataki
I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home. View quote
Hope Davis
I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.' View quote
J. Cole
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. View quote
Jason Alexander
I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. View quote
Judy Holliday
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying. (James Balog)
New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished. View quote
Kurt Braunohler
I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is. View quote
Kara DioGuardi
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? View quote
Leonard Slatkin
One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative. View quote
Liza Donnelly
I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea. View quote
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it. View quote
Chris Jordan
Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment. View quote
Emory Cohen
I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'. View quote
Michael Wolf
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there. View quote
Nicole Holofcener
I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.' (Paul Engle)
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation. View quote
Robert Mankoff
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. View quote
Richard Avedon
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. View quote
Sherri Shepherd
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here. View quote
Sloane Crosley