Brooklyn Quotes

Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and I wasn't supposed to come to Manhattan.

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

I will always be dedicated to the talented men and women at our headquarters in Brooklyn and across the country.

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

Everyone needs a facelift, except if you are from Brooklyn then you need a nose job !!!

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

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is a very weird borough.

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."

I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?

It would be a blessing to play in Brooklyn Nets .

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

I'm 37, please don't make me go to Brooklyn.

I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth.

A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down

Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.

I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

I heard Amos yell, “For Brooklyn!” It was an odd battle cry.

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.