Downtown Quotes

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

— Dan Gilroy

I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

— Zooey Deschanel

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

— Daniel Holloway

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

— Tony Hatch

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

— Guy Lafleur

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

— Frank Gehry

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

— Bobby Heenan

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

— Zooey Deschanel

“That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.”

— Daniel Amory

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

— Bill Frisell

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

— Blake Shelton

The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down…

— Lenny Bruce

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

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing…

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Anonymous

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love…

— Andy Warhol

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be…

— Jordin Sparks

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

— ASAP Rocky

Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way,…

— Vanessa Carlton

Well you wave your hand and they scatter like crows They have nothing that will ever capture your heart They're just thorns…

— Tom Waits

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

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

I remember going to Shibe Park, Connie Mack, when I was a kid with my dad and my mom. I felt more…

— Joe Maddon

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

— Jon Bernthal

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

For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought…

— Nicholas Sparks

I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to…

— Louis Armstrong

No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental.…

— Margo Jefferson

“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in…

— Daniel Amory

In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like…

— Jeff Greenwald

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

“It was a generation growing in its disillusionment about the deepening recession and the backroom handshakes and greedy deals for private little…

— Daniel Amory

“Shortly before school started, I moved into a studio apartment on a quiet street near the bustle of the downtown in one…

— Daniel Amory

I ain't asking for much. I said, Lord, take me downtown, I'm just looking for some tush.

— ZZ Top

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

— J.R. Ward

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

— Joakim Noah

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

— EJ Johnson

People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

— Jack White

You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.

— Jane Jacobs