Broad City Quotes

#1. I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

Mackenzie Davis

#2. I think L.A. has got a great lifestyle, but I love New York. You couldn't do 'Broad City' in L.A. because L.A. is a much gentler place. The standard of living is so different.

Darren Star

#3. What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.

Ilana Glazer

#4. I lived with Ilana Glazer of 'Broad City.' She was my roommate for a year and a half. I was living with her just as she was creating and filming 'Broad City.' Both of us, and a lot of my friends, come from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater either in New York or L.A.

Rachel Bloom

#5. The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It's a valid critique - and one that Broad City has increasingly interrogated, suggesting, especially in later seasons, the extent of Abbi and Ilana's privilege.

Anne Helen Petersen

#6. 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

Caitlin Stasey

#7. 'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human.

Ilana Glazer

#8. A lot of people think that I'm one of the women from 'Broad City' - and I'm just not.

Jenny Slate

#9. If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.

Abbi Jacobson

#10. I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

Ilana Glazer

#11. "Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.

Ilana Glazer

#12. We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

Abbi Jacobson

#13. A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

Kevin Starr

#14. If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.

Margaret Kilgallen

#15. St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#16. I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.

Bill De Blasio

#17. Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves ... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.

David Ben-Gurion

#18. There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#19. Everything was perfect and, for the first time in a long time, I was really happy. However, if there's a universal truth in life, it is that things never stay perfect for long. Sooner or later, the shit always hits the fan, right?

Rye Hart

#20. Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan,

Jim Harbaugh

#21. Only joy comes from song.

Alicia Keys

#22. Taking Batman globally, not everything is going to have the same flavor as Gotham City; some places are going to be a lot more bright and airy. I would say that his stories are more broad, I guess I would put it that way.

David Finch

#23. Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

Eli Broad

#24. Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I remain alive.

Margaret Atwood

#25. Ant swarming City
City full of dreams
Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

Charles Baudelaire

#26. I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

Michael Rapaport

#27. I'm a witch. It's what we do. When it's nobody else's business, it's my business.

Terry Pratchett

#28. The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

Charlie Pierce

#29. It's not what you're not sure of that gets you: It's when you just know it's okay, and you don't check.

S.J. Lewis

#30. When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.

Norman Foster

#31. I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

Eli Broad

#32. Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.

Eli Broad

#33. What could i do to make the one i loved love me back ?

Simone Elkeles

#34. I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

Eli Broad

#35. Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic ...

Charlotte Riddell