Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy K. Smith

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

William Cowper

Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.

William Hague

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

Mary McCarthy

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

Joseph Stalin

Die, but do not retreat.

John Burroughs

How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

Joseph McCabe

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Ai Weiwei

Dont retreat. Retweet!

Juvenal

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

Arthur Schwartz

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

Tony Visconti

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

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.

Victoria Beckham

I'll just go into the studio - as I always have with Brooklyn - with one under each arm.' (But maybe not now she has been dropped from her record label...)

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?

Hank Sheinkopf

stinging rebuke of the incumbent. What it tells you is that the majority of Brooklyn prefer a change.

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.

Steve Golden

It was a great team. They were individuals who united the community, and then they were gone. I think the people of Brooklyn back then, they don't live in Brooklyn now, they live in Florida, in L.A., Long Island, wherever, but they don't forget the Brooklyn team of '55.

John Ashcroft

I think it is always very important for us to take those kinds of requests very seriously,

Robert Sanchez

He killed everyone with kindness at all times.

David Bowens

I think it's an even more macho thing to come out and talk about that kind of stuff.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

David Sanborn

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

Jerry Sanders

I think the problem is you can't just kind of reveal things,

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Pat Thomas

I think we performed pretty well. We're kinda tiny but mighty. For every person on this team there is talent, but there just is not a lot of depth.

Tony Amonte

I think we're the only ones going to be there with kids. But we kinda have to with the baby.