Greenwich Quotes
36 quotes by 32 authors
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In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was…
— Norman Mailer
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I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.
— Joe Manganiello
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By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram…
— Jonathan Sarfati
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I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of…
— Burl Ives
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the…
— Gregory Corso
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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then…
— David Starkey
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I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family…
— Ralph Bakshi
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I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
— Yancy Butler
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Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not…
— Cliff Asness
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So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be…
— Steve Forbert
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to…
— Roger McGuinn
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These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco…
— Alan Watts
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We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled,…
— John Lennon
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Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the…
— Aravind Adiga
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Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang…
— David Amram
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Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his…
— Tom Folsom
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If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.
— Charles Dickens
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My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and…
— Gus Van Sant
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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
— Carly Simon
Who Wrote These Greenwich Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 36 Greenwich Quotes, led by these top contributors: