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Letter "T" » The New Yorker
«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.»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
A level, intention, playful, scale, The New Yorker, topical
«People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
| About:
America and Americans,
Funny
| Keywords:
cab, cabs, engine, get along, radio, sharing, The New Yorker, tires
«Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.»
Author: J. Russell Lynes
(Writer)
| Keywords:
brimming, brims, real name, snob, The New Yorker, unfortunates, with sympathy
«New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.»
«How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?»
«Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.»
«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.»
Author: Jon Stewart
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
attended, even chance, get in, get in touch, heads, heads of state, head of state, prejudices, summit, summits, The New Yorker
«Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed»
Author: Phyllis Diller
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
bank, cab, cabs, get into, robbed, robbing a bank, The New Yorker
«As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
get through, The New Yorker, The Night, The Twilight, twilight
«The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attributes, attributing, common, common sense, hundred, list, listed, Lists of, List of, my list, number, The Last, the list, The New Yorker, top
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