Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schwartz

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

Rae Rosen

If you walk around the area, you'll see tourists with the Michelin Green Guide walking through Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights. It seems to me there's a market there.

Janel Patterson

The city is committed to expanding maritime cargo uses on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Abel Ferrara

This is New York seen from the point of view of an outsider. The TV journalist is so famous that he's no longer part of the world. A limo takes him from his house in Brooklyn Heights to his job in mid-Manhattan, and he doesn't see anything outside the car until a rock smashes his window. I wondered about famous journalists: Who these guys are? What do they really feel and how much can they show their feelings?

Norman Mailer

I've had an exciting relation to France all my life, from my young years in Brooklyn when I thought that Paris was the place to be.

Mark Twain

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

Breckin Meyer

There's a scene at the end of the movie where I tell her, 'You know you've got to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge,

Darin Strauss

Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.

Anne Sexton

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Bob Wietharn

It is my heart, where I grew up, and where I'll always be.

Bill Sullivan

Last year, our revenue grew by 30% in India and we hope it continues.

Whoopi Goldberg

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

Whoopi Goldberg

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

Morgan Freeman

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

Julia Stiles

I pretty much grew up in public.

Brian McKnight

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

Ann Kirkpatrick

I grew up learning to do more with less.

Jim Gaffigan

I grew up in Sheepshead Bay.

Dan Fogler

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.