Brooklyn Quotes · Page 10

I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in…

— Chris Mullin

I was going to different neighborhoods around Brooklyn battling cats back in - this started in '82, so that's like eighth grade.…

— Big Daddy Kane

Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

— Allen Ginsberg

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

— Arthur Schwartz

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

— Lena Dunham

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

— Ernie Harwell

“To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.”

— Cat Agonis

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

— Alek Wek

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I…

— Colson Whitehead

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe…

— Barbara Stanwyck

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw…

— Diego Della Valle

Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both -…

— Jimmy Iovine

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to…

— Tom Robbins

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good…

— Lana Del Rey

Brooklyn has a strong, historic relationship with both music and basketball, and I look forward to working with BSE Global to find…

— Angela Yee

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in…

— Bill Griffith

Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked…

— Anne Heche

I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out…

— Tracy Morgan

My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the…

— Michael K. Williams

CNN? Oh, that's that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be…

— Mark Steyn

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent…

— Scott Westerfeld

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional…

— Daniel Goleman

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I…

— Colson Whitehead

“This is Brooklyn--which means ten thousand streets and blocks like this one. Brooklyn, Admiral Drake, is the Standard Concentrated Chaos No. 1…

— Thomas Wolfe

I love Brooklyn so much. Everything I do I try to do in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is my home base.

— Angela Yee

It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

— Barbara Boxer

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually…

— Grant Achatz

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

— Saoirse Ronan

I've been to Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan numerous times throughout my career.

— Nicole Malliotakis

Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.

— Caroline Polachek

When I go back to my hood, Queens, Brooklyn, or here in L.A., the people that's not famous, that's what inspires me.

— Dave East

Maybe I can become an all-rookie, but first I have to get minutes to play for Brooklyn.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

— Joe Harris

I'm big on coffee shops. Fortunately, I live in Brooklyn where there are many to choose from.

— Camille Perri

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

— Anonymous

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my…

— Charlemagne Palestine

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

— Betty Comden

Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.

— Aja Brown

“Magnus Bane,” said Magnus. “High Warlock of Brooklyn and Scrabble champion.”

— Cassandra Clare