#new yorker

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead. ↗

— Harold Ford

#adversity #ahead #better #care #days

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker. ↗

— Ed Koch

#faster #find #here #i #live

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#becomes #bestseller #book #chick #fascination

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#chance #even #get #giving #had

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#bound #especially #i #incredible #library

Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#begin #democrats #new #new yorkers #republicans

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#advocating #any #defense #department #draft

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

— Laurie Anderson

#america #i #island #lives #looks

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#built-in #first #i #i see #neutral

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#cutting edge #edge #especially #ever #exciting