Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't touch New Orleans with a ten-foot pole. That town is haunted as shit, and all the better for it. Nowhere… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
'Treme' begins after Hurricane Katrina, and it's a year-by-year account of how everyday people there put their lives back together. It's sort… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“There were railroads in the wilderness now; people who used to go overland by carriage or horseback to the River landings for… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom,… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start… — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I'm going to be heading for New Orleans towards the end of the week," I told Loretta over dinner that night. "Really?… — Gideon Rathbone Copy Share Image
“Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
“The suspicion that a calamity might also be a punishment is further useful in that it allows an infinity of speculation. After… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Not to Houston, anyway. It was hotter than hell in Houston, just like in New Orleans. If I move anywhere, it’ll be… — Amanda Stevens Copy Share Image
“The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington,” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you,… — Julie Smith Copy Share Image
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
New Orleans coroner, his name is Frank Minyard, f-ck with me wrong, you'll be waking up in his yard — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image