Williamsburg's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

Teresa Of Avila

#3. True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

James Baldwin

#4. A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

William Shakespeare

#5. At every turn, give five good reasons for saying no.

Stuart Wilde

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Flesh on the outside, metal on the inside.

Ransom Riggs

#9. 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

#10. Quite pure, quite free of future planning, I mounted
the tangled funeral pyre built for my suffering,
so sure of nothing more to buy for future needs,
while in my heart the stored reserves kept silent.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Chaim Potok

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Twenty-eight men were on trial. If found guilty, they faced death by the grisly form of torture known as hanging, drawing and quartering. The most important of these were twenty-four who had sat as judges at the king's trial. Most of them had played other key roles in bringing the king to trial.

Don Jordan

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

Abbey Lee Kershaw

#16. God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord.

Richard Kadrey

#17. In the case of smokers, the abuse leads to death, sicknesses, cancer, amputation, loss of all kinds.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Courage drown by horses is hard to market, and makes more wounds.

Auliq Ice

#21. So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

Sally Schneider

#22. 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

#23. How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.

Margaret Drabble

#24. 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

#25. No matter how old he is, or what kind of shape he's in, Hogan believes in his heart that he is the star of the show, and he is wrestling. I don't think he gives a damn about anyone else.

Bret Hart

#26. 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

#27. Praise for others is no slight to yourself.

Lacey Deaver

#28. They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They were looking at him as if he was their Certainty.

Terry Pratchett