#yorker

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#likes #morning #new #new yorker #real

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#born #bred #everytime #here #i

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#obscurity #the-new-yorker #accomplishments

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#home #hometown #new-york-city #new-yorker #optimism

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#come #day #every #every single day #hundreds

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#argument #bank #been #cab #get

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#guarded #i #i think #new #new yorkers

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

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue. ↗

— James Welch

#dixon #fluke #issue #new #new yorker

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

#ends #london #manhattan #miles #new