Quotes About Williamsburg

#1. No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if the real estate agents would have you believe it is.

Jami Attenberg

#2. It was one of the links between the ground-down poor and the wasteful rich. The girl felt that even if she had less than anybody in Williamsburg, somehow she had more. She was richer because she had something to waste.

Betty Smith

#3. My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

Robert Ballard

#4. In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.

Jami Attenberg

#5. Although the clientele were primarily the Eloi of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, an incident a month earlier had involved a platinumed-out crew of Bronx Morlocks:

Richard Price

#6. I don't really go out, 'go out' that much anymore. I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

Zoe Kravitz

#7. Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.

Chaim Potok

#8. Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

Imogen Binnie

#9. I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

Barry Manilow

#10. My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

#11. I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

Andrew Rannells

#12. Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

Valerie June

#13. Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

George Will

#14. Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

Ezra Taft Benson

#15. Wait a second," I said. "If we're worried about an attack, why not just blow up the entrance? Seal the tunnel?" "Great idea!" Grover said. "I'll get the dynamite!

Rick Riordan

#16. Air freshener is man's pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

Julian Schnabel

#18. We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Phil Knight

#19. You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Eckhart Tolle

#20. America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

Ronald Reagan

#21. I looked into his eyes, and I saw so much more than just him. I saw the pain, the triumphs, the love, the horror, the sorrow, the joy, but most of all, the person I was in love with. There was so much more than just him in the depths of his eyes.

Me

#22. I think it's much harder for anybody who voted Remain to have credibility amongst the voters who voted to leave in terms of leading the country. It's not impossible, but it's much harder.

Liam Fox

#23. The fact that we slowly apprehend our world, rather than suddenly discover it, should not subtract from its wonder.

Richard Dawkins

#24. All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

Constance Wu

#25. The only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.

Brad Warner

#26. When she sees him, Holly says, it's like the sunsets at the beach
once the sun drops, the sand chills quickly. Then it's like a lot of times that were good ten minutes ago and don't count now.

Amy Hempel