Brooklyn Quotes · Page 8

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

— Truman Capote

At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.

— Paul Pierce

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

— Frank McCourt

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

— Peter Criss

In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

— Zach Condon

You're more likely to find me at home in the evenings watching 'Brooklyn Nine Nine.'

— Phil Rudd

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing…

— Michael Grimm

Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most…

— Anonymous

My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend…

— Mike Birbiglia

I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite…

— Danny DeVito

Here I am, playing with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Kidd is my coach, I'm in Brooklyn, New York, they lobbied for…

— Shaun Livingston

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music…

— Richie Havens

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's…

— Mitch Kapor

I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being…

— Dani Shapiro

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the…

— Alfred Kazin

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

I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn. "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?" On the A Train,…

— Rakim

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school,…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

— Chris Martin

Even if I don't see Brooklyn I have to see Anomolisa, because it's Charlie Kaufman. No one is doing things that they…

— Bun B

Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries…

— Barack Obama

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up…

— Debi Mazar

“Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where…

— Kate Carlisle

There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded.

— Sandrine Holt

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

— Robert Jay Lifton

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

— Colson Whitehead

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

— Keri Russell

A lot of people in barber shops all over Brooklyn talk about Paulie Malignaggi v. Zab Judah.

— Paulie Malignaggi

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd…

— GZA

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

— David Meltzer

Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.

— Joe Flaherty

I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to have to accept me or just not…

— Astro

When you're from Brooklyn, you've got to rep, and you've got to perform, like it's your last fight on earth.

— Daniel Jacobs

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from,…

— Howard Schultz

There's a difference between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Brooklyn and Queens. There's a difference.

— Maverick Carter

I played tennis at underneath - Brooklyn Bridge? Manhattan Bridge? Williamsburg Bridge? There are courts on the Manhattan side.

— Callum Turner

And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid…

— Rudy Giuliani

I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

— Larry King