Brooklyn Quotes · Page 9

Just playing in Brooklyn, playing in New York is such an amazing experience - it's something that can be so special.

— Brook Lopez

I live in Brooklyn, and there's so many interracial couples in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, you don't talk about race like that.

— Jessica Williams

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste…

— Barbara Stanwyck

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

— Mary Tyler Moore

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

— Hakeem Jeffries

New York is one of my favorite places in the world, Brooklyn especially.

— Ben Howard

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid…

— Michael De Luca

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

— Theo Rossi

It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait…

— Cassandra Clare

“My breath came out in a fog and rose into the milky sky. Snow fell on my eyelashes, and all of Brooklyn…

— Alice Hoffman

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the…

— Emanuel Celler

You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don't really get star…

— Vanessa Ferlito

I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga's…

— Theophilus London

“Trust me," Cameron cut in, "there ain't a thing wrong with those two unless you count the unusual and exquisite length of…

— Darynda Jones

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all…

— Betty Smith

I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are…

— Ira Sachs

“Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the…

— Lara Vapnyar

My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a…

— Donald Trump

I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn…

— Nick Swardson

As the Representative for Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn, communities that are both extremely sensitive to tolling, I'm greatly disappointed in the…

— Nicole Malliotakis

There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold…

— Anne Sexton

Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make…

— Alex Stapleton

My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend…

— Maurice Ashley

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think.

— Erik Larson

We lived in the projects in Brooklyn, the elevator used to be broken, and we used to walk up 20 flights of…

— Brian Flores

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

— Anthony Bourdain

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small…

— Porter Robinson

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

— Michael K. Williams

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a…

— Jared Kushner

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

— Jonathan Franzen

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

— Gregory Pardlo

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

— Bob Dylan

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

— Donald Trump

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me…

— Tracy Morgan

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

— Rene Balcer

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million…

— Richard Jeni

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

— David Wilkerson

It's hard to compete with everything that Brooklyn has to offer as a city.

— Joe Harris

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

— Alice Hoffman