Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn.… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. — Neil Diamond 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
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to… — Jo Nesbo 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
We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to… — Duke Snider Copy Share Image
Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
America to me is where I grew up: in Brooklyn, around other black and Latino people who helped and loved each other.… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and… — Donald Trump 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
'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall… — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
