New Yorkers Quotes - Page 8

• You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  New York, America, Knows

  Edward Rutherfurd (2010). “New York”, p.418, Random House

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• The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.

  Tina Fey

  Zero, Golf, Kitchen

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cities, Bagels, Fit

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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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• 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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• New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Voice, Support

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• New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

  Robert Benchley

  New York, Cities, People

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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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• As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. I made numerous calls, including one where I crossed the street while talking to a New York radio reporter - probably one of the more dangerous things I have ever done in my life.

  Martin Cooper

  New York, Moving, Phones

  "The day the mobile phone went public 38 years ago, leaving New Yorkers bemused and bewildered" by Graham Smith, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 5, 2011.

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• If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

  Samantha Bee

  Crazy, Home, People

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

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• The NYPD must stop acting like the only thing black people do is run from them and shoot at them. Believe it or not there are some black New Yorkers who won't run and can't shoot -- they're called the #‎ Knicks .

  Bill Maher

  Running, Believe, People

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• I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

  Bill de Blasio

  Real, Opportunity, Years

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

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• Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

  Aravind Adiga

  Crazy, Years, Cities

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• Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

  Charlie Day

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

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Used, Ovens, Storage

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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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• 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

  Uncles, Queens, Heart

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• New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City, commute endless hours to raise their families in safe, clean neighborhoods. The numbers of non-Americans, especially those from the Third World, are growing, and it is the hard working White New Yorker that pays the bill.

  David Duke

  New York, Hard Work, Numbers

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• 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

  Jobs, New York, Believe

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• New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Literature, Cases

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

  Brendan Gill

  Levels, Intention, Scales

  BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

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• The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

  John Lahr

  Art, Drama, Practice

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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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• When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of being attacked on the way, the traffic snarl-ups, the bland indifference of the city cops, they are unmistakably bragging.

  Jonathan Raban

  New York, Party, Cities

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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