Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.

W. C. Fields

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

W. C. Fields

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

Linden Ashby

I love the show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia;' that's probably a guilty pleasure! I laugh so hard.

Peter Schiff

The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points.

Jonathan Franzen

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

Chaka Fattah

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.

Camille Paglia

I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

Benjamin Franklin

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Carson McCullers

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

David Foster Wallace

All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.

Rick Riordan

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

Rem Koolhaas

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

Red Buttons

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

Val Kilmer

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

Mick Jagger

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

Noah Baumbach

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

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.

Keeth Smart

Brooklyn is a very weird borough.

Mark Twain

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

Joe Flaherty

Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.