Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library.… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don't twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
“Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase?… — James Caskey Copy Share Image
“According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line... This… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said,… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
One of the best moments I've ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image