Downtown Quotes

AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.

— Blake Shelton

So please give my letter to that beauty downtown. With my heart in her hands and her feet off the ground.

— Anonymous

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

— Stephen Chbosky

I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

— Valerie Azlynn

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.

— Tony Hatch

Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown.

— Daniel Holloway

I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

— Zooey Deschanel

“Three a.m. in downtown Caldwell, New York, gave you just enough obstacles to keep shit amusing.”

— J.R. Ward

I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when…

— Keith Rothfus

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the…

— Althea Gibson

My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation…

— Eliza Dushku

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of…

— Suzanne Fields

When I'm in New York I love to stay at the Mercer Hotel, and the C. Wonder store was so part of…

— Brad Goreski

I'm pretty darn happy. I really wanted to go to San Diego and play for those offensive masterminds. I'm looking forward to…

— Ryan Leaf

When I was little I wanted to be like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love or be attached to the X-girls and hang…

— Princess Nokia

What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar…

— Talib Kweli

I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living…

— Jon Bernthal

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college,…

— Annie Baker

If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push…

— Noam Chomsky

No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown…

— Alice Sebold

I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I…

— Mr. T

Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall.…

— Seth Shostak

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and…

— ASAP Rocky

It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power…

— Ilona Andrews

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8…

— Bette Midler

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…

— Anne Fadiman

Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress…

— Stephen Chbosky

No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible…

— Matt Shea

I like things that are avant-garde, but at the same time I can also go downtown edgy.

— EJ Johnson

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

— Joakim Noah

My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing…

— Mike Pence

People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

— Jack White

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

— Anonymous

“Really, nobody was there?” I asked. “Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.”

— Daniel Amory

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

— Nate Berkus

I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a…

— Muhammad Ali

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

— Meg White

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

— Bob Seger

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

— Charles Bukowski