The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and… — Zack Wheat Copy Share Image
It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens,… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I don't really go out, 'go out' that much anymore. I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a spit of land jutting out over the New York Harbor and looking across to the gleaming high… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I had gone back home to finish my book in 2011, and that's when these laws really started coming into states all… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker,… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is an idealized, fun comedy world in which feminism is an underlying value that all the characters have. Equality is… — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was… — Marion Ross Copy Share Image
What I say is that there's this culture and this vibe and this community in Brooklyn that's so amazing and wonderful, and… — Susan Kelechi Watson Copy Share Image
Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the… — Fab Five Freddy Copy Share Image
It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I did 'Pines,' and everybody wanted me to be the bad boy. Then I did Tony in 'Brooklyn,' and everybody wanted me… — Emory Cohen Copy Share Image
It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
Usually I get a feel for cities real quick, but Brooklyn is different. It's something new every day. But that's what makes… — Caris LeVert Copy Share Image
It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I just made a movie. There's a kind of a banter that some people might recognize as being screwball. There are no… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
The only one that I have to go and see is Brooklyn. I was surprised to see it get the best picture… — Bun B Copy Share Image
“I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill… — Kate Carlisle Copy Share Image
An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
It's drones over Brooklyn, you blink, you could get tooken, And now you're understanding the definition of 'Crooklyn.' Pigs on parade, but… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up… — Susan Hayward Copy Share Image
The cities that I go to where I can tell that they have a lot of different types of drag, I tell… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more… — Brooklyn Decker Copy Share Image
When people look back on me and my career, I'd like them to say I was one of the people who helped… — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government… — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
