New Yorker Quotes

• As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • House
  • Options
  • Obsessing

• To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Believed
  • Apologize
  • New Yorker

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

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • America
  • Island
  • New Yorker

• I told a big investor in The New Yorker - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`Bill Shawn pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Mistake
  • Writers
  • Complain

• I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Woman
  • Artist
  • New Yorker

• If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.

  

  Deniz Gamze Erguven
  • Architecture
  • Impression
  • Seen

• I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

  

  Ed Askew
  • Walk
  • Buildings
  • New Yorker

• I like John Cardinal O'Connor a lot. He - I started a - to know him - when I asked William Shawn at The New Yorker, `Sh - can I do a profile of Cardinal O'Connor?' He said, `All right. Find out what he's like.' So I went to his office, and I heard somebody - and it turned out to be O'Connor - yelling outside, and I've never heard him since raise his voice.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Voice
  • Office
  • Find Out

• If Bill Shawn liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Reading
  • Run
  • Result