True New Yorker Quotes

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

Pete Hamill

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

John Updike

#3. I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!

Blythe Danner

#4. Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

Colson Whitehead

#5. 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.

Kurt Braunohler

#6. You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.

Chris Diamantopoulos

#7. A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!

Heather Thomson

#8. 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

#9. Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

Robert Moses

#10. We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.

William Sloane Coffin

#11. Culture preaches monogamy while Nature repeats it - over and over again.

Anthony Marais

#12. Home's the most excellent place of all.

Neil Diamond

#13. The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.

Stephen Malkmus

#14. A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#15. Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

Gary McCord

#16. Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.

J. Christopher Herold

#17. But, if recent history has taught us anything, it's that self-regulation doesn't work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

James Surowiecki

#18. A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. I have to get at least 10 hours of sleep or it's not a good day!

Herieth Paul

#20. Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

Michael Specter

#21. She was standing on the moon and if I responded I would be on the moon too, right next to her.

Miranda July

#22. Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking.

James Wood

#23. I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#24. It's easier to promote things, if you have fans.

Ryan Kwanten

#25. The crushing weight of silence hangs heavy as always. For a moment it's too difficult to breathe, and I wonder if this is how I die. Drowned in this bed of silk, burned by a king's obsession, smothered by open air.

Victoria Aveyard

#26. Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss.

Wayne Dyer

#27. 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

#28. Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.

Terry Pratchett

#29. Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

Donald T. Regan