Top 100 Quotes About Brooklyn
#2. Photographer shoots Sutton in close-up, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway behind his head. The expressway was built while Sutton was in prison. God what a monstrosity, Sutton says. I didn't think they could make Brooklyn uglier. I underestimated them.
J.R. Moehringer
#3. In the unlikely event that she does escape me, I will inform you all. If you catch her, you are to detain her and return her to me." His eyes glowed like the fires of hell. "She is not to be harmed in any way, or so help you God, you will regret it until your last breath." *
Brooklyn Ann
#5. Life is for living and for sharing - but not taking.
Brooklyn June
#7. I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.
Brooklyn Decker
#8. When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.
Brooklyn Sudano
#9. When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.
GZA
#10. I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math - if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?
Joan Rivers
#11. Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.
Theophilus London
#12. I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.
Saoirse Ronan
#13. With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
Kate Christensen
#14. My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.
Mike Birbiglia
#15. I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.
Vito Fossella
#16. It's drones over Brooklyn, you blink, you could get tooken,
And now you're understanding the definition of 'Crooklyn.'
Pigs on parade, but bacon fryin' and cookin',
Cause kids' tired of dyin' and walkin' round like they shooken.
Killer Mike
#17. I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.
Didi Conn
#18. In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.
Don Drysdale
#19. Magnus Bane," said Magnus. "High Warlock of Brooklyn and Scrabble champion.
Cassandra Clare
#20. born in Newark... educated in Trenton... enlightened in LA...experienced in Brooklyn...actualization in Houston...manifestation in Ft. Myers
Alan Mitchell
#21. If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'
Annie Golden
#22. It's a coffee cup."
She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup."
"I can't wait till you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram.
Cassandra Clare
#24. I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.
Marion Ross
#25. I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.
Grant Achatz
#26. I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.
Wynter Gordon
#27. I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.
Rudy Giuliani
#28. When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.
Libba Bray
#29. In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.
Roz Chast
#30. I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.
Joe Torre
#31. Poor thing.
To die and never see Brooklyn.
Anne Sexton
#32. I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women.
Eliza Doolittle
#33. I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.
Sue Monk Kidd
#34. Note to goyim readers: not every Jew who grew up in Brooklyn was rich. And as long as I'm on it, here's another note: fuck you. That's all. Whether or not you assumed we were rich, if you're a goyim, fuck you. But keep reading, and tell your friends to buy the book.
Gilbert Gottfried
#35. we looked, we saw the people trying to dream themselves out. As though there was someplace other than this place. As though there was another Brooklyn. August,
Jacqueline Woodson
#36. I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.
Marilyn Monroe
#37. I watched my brother watch the world, his sharp, too-serious brow furrowing down in both angst and wonder. Everywhere we looked, we saw the people trying to dream themselves out. As though there was someplace other than this place. As though there was another Brooklyn.
Jacqueline Woodson
#38. You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.
Brandy Norwood
#39. I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
Adam Davidson
#40. I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.
Bernhard Goetz
#41. It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead of this rambling march of verses, Rick understands that music needs hooks. You need that repeated chorus, that everyone can sing along to.
Scott Avett
#42. I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.
James Gray
#43. I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.
Jennifer Connelly
#44. I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.
Tracy Morgan
#45. People looking up at her
at her smooth pretty vivacious face
had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
Betty Smith
#46. Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.
Richard Jeni
#47. I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.
Michael Arad
#48. ...you make your own way in life. Sometimes that's hard for people to love, when they can't make you do what they want you to.
Brooklyn James
#49. My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.
Woody Allen
#50. I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
Ian Schrager
#51. I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
Dani Shapiro
#52. That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.
Kehinde Wiley
#53. I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.
Charlemagne Palestine
#54. My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work.
Nicki Minaj
#55. Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down
Nas
#56. I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short story, but it's such an incredible short story.
Suzanne Collins
#57. We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
Irwin Rose
#58. I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.
Didi Conn
#60. Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.
Theophilus London
#61. You knew I would find you and you knew what I'd do when I did." -Cort (The Carver's Problem)
B.L. Brooklyn
#62. 'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.
Spike Lee
#63. In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
Daniel Boulud
#64. Course you can't fucking see, buddy, it's darker than a nun's virgin anus down here.
Charlie Huston
#66. Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?
Norman Finkelstein
#67. Move on. It's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book just turn the page.
Brooklyn Copeland
#68. I hate this. Will the darkness ever fade?
Will I ever see light again?
Is it light where you are?
Lisa Schroeder
#69. Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.
Britta Phillips
#70. The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.
Bob Dole
#71. Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why.
Lenny Kravitz
#72. Baseball writers develop a great attachment for the Brooklyn club if long exposed,
Roger Kahn
#73. Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.
Seann William Scott
#74. I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell [williams], so I'm really in great hands.
Nia Long
#75. As I promised you before, you do not need to be afraid of me. I will not hurt you. If you give yourself the chance to get to know me, you will see that I will be a generous husband." Angelica
Brooklyn Ann
#77. It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.
Mimi Sheraton
#78. In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.
Kool Moe Dee
#79. When the Brooklyn rain comes down
hopefully it will be to fuckin' wake you up
Julian Gallo
#80. I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
Barbra Streisand
#81. I like a hairy chest, I think that's really sexy. I'm not naked a lot oddly enough but I usually wear sweats, its very unsexy.
Brooklyn Decker
#82. The catch off Bobby Morgan
(a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson
and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher
were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes
Willie Mays
#83. I heard Amos yell, "For Brooklyn!"
It was an odd battle cry.
Rick Riordan
#84. In July 1958, Cristoforo Rubino became another informer to fall before testifying against Mafia drug traffickers. A week before he was to testify before a grand jury investigating Vito Genovese and other traffickers, Rubino was shot dead on a Brooklyn sidewalk.98
C. Alexander Hortis
#85. It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.
Wolfman Jack
#86. My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Dave Van Ronk
#87. I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.
Daniel Humm
#88. Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.
Jonathan Franzen
#89. Rafael possessed unfathomable strength. His speed defied the laws of nature...and his bite, good God, his bite. How could something so macabre feel so pleasurable?
Brooklyn Ann
#90. A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.
Moby
#91. But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again.
Betty Smith
#92. I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.
Paul Dano
#93. One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.
Pete Hamill
#94. On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
Mitch Kapor
#95. I always knew you were unworthy of my Johnny. You couldn't even provide him with an heir!" Before Cassandra could reply, a shadow fell over them both. "You should leave now, madam, before I throw you out," Rafael Villar told her in a low voice.
Brooklyn Ann
#96. I work in comedy, journalism, media, and technology, many of which don't have a lot of black faces in visible positions. I walk through Brooklyn with a surfboard. It's fun to challenge and expand people's expectations.
Baratunde Thurston
#97. I take writing very seriously. There's a lot of responsibility in putting blood in the veins of fictional characters.
Brooklyn Hudson
#98. I want to be closer to the sky. Closer to the pink moon. And closer to the stars that shine over South Bend, which turn out to be the very same ones that twinkle over Brooklyn.
Adriana Trigiani
#99. Two jobless grown-ups, we spent weeks wandering around our Brooklyn brownstone in socks and pajamas, ignoring the future, strewing unopened mail across tables and sofas, eating ice cream at ten A.M. and taking thick afternoon naps.
Gillian Flynn
#100. For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.
Trevor Paglen
