Brooklyn Quotes · Page 2

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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

— Norman Finkelstein

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

— Arthur Schwartz

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay…

— Michael Chabon

I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

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 lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem,…

— Don Winslow

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it…

— Betty Smith

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

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

Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go…

— Lenny Kravitz

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

— Keri Russell

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the…

— Jonathan Lethem

I wouldn't say 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is a really 'delicate' show. I would probably use a word more like 'zany.'

— Stephanie Beatriz

There's a band from Brooklyn called Frankie Cosmos, which is very nice.

— Finn Wolfhard

Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in…

— Christopher Hitchens

I used to drink soda everyday, Hi-C everyday, and Hawaiian punch. That's how I grew up in Brooklyn.

— Angela Yee

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to…

— Chris Martin

When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.

— Libba Bray

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

— David Beckham

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

— Jahlil Okafor

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn…

— Kehinde Wiley

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in…

— Chris Rock

“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

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

— Ernie Harwell