Brooklyn Quotes - Page 3

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.

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

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.

And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

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

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

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

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

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

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

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

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

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.

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

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