Brooklyn Quotes · Page 10

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

— Angela Yee

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

— Alek Wek

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

— Saoirse Ronan

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

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

— Lana Del Rey

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

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

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'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 love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit…

— Zoe Kazan

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and…

— Jay-Z

I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was…

— Colson Whitehead

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

— Anne Sexton

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

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

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

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

You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars…We have munched Bridge burgers in…

— Charles Kuralt

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

— Caroline Polachek

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

— Nicole Malliotakis

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

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

— Aja Brown

Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Cassandra Clare

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

— David Beckham

My office prides itself on providing outstanding constituent services for the residents of Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn.

— Nicole Malliotakis

That's one of things I've heard about Brooklyn - how good they are at developing players.

— Jahlil Okafor

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

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify…

— Curt Weldon

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from…

— Norman Finkelstein

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in…

— Bill O'Reilly

“Yellow daises tell me Brooklyn's been here. His flower girl. I brought nothing. Just myself. How fitting. Seems like that's all I've…

— Lisa Schroeder