“I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it.” — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
“I hate this. Will the darkness ever fade? Will I ever see light again? Is it light where you are?” — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“Being near you, Brooklyn…it’s like breathing. I don’t have a choice about it; I just have to do it or I know… — Julie Johnson Copy Share Image
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where… — Kate Carlisle Copy Share Image
You're more likely to find me at home in the evenings watching 'Brooklyn Nine Nine.' — Phil Rudd Copy Share Image
I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation. — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody… — Richard Parsons Copy Share Image
I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think… — Brooklyn Sudano Copy Share Image
There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with… — Bernhard Goetz Copy Share Image
Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education. — Peter Criss Copy Share Image
At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn. — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.' — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do. — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would… — Raquel Zimmermann Copy Share Image
