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
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly… — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
Nothing's hipper than leaving the set of 'Girls' in Brooklyn and having a teamster drop you off at your Broadway show. — Peter Scolari Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've… — Ian Schrager Copy Share Image
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day. — Theo Rossi 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
I didn't know exactly what a hipster was until we were in Brooklyn. It's like a species. On first seeing it, I… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where… — El-P 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
To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation… — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
