Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Mark Aaron

We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.

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.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Joe Elliott

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

Mick Jagger

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

Theo James

I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you look there is something happening.

Richard Parsons

I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.

Wolfman Jack

It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

Wynter Gordon

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.

Bryan Greenberg

'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.

David Beckham

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

Chuck Granby

To win the championship you have to go through Brooklyn or the Bronx. I've been coaching 37 years and only eight times has a team outside of those boroughs won.

Tim White

We estimate that the ... remediation at our property at Third St. and Third Ave. in Brooklyn is about 75%-80% completed at this point.

David Beckham

One of the reasons why Brooklyn didn't go to a (Spanish) school was because of the press attention,

David Byrne

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

Jim Greenwood

Some of the most brilliant people in the world doing the most important cutting-edge science will converge in Chicago. They will network. They will interact. They will learn from one another. And the world's total knowledge of this life-saving and life-enhancing science will grow exponentially as a result of what happens here.

Tatiana Maslany

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

Kendra Todd

Really maximize your opportunity to learn from Donald Trump. He is truly a genius and a brilliant negotiator.

Rudi Giuliani

I think the Vietnam memorial captured in a brilliant way what needed to be captured about Vietnam, and to this day has stood the test of time, ... It has in a way captured the difficulty of Vietnam, the historical significance of it, the ordeal of it, and the individual sacrifice involved.

Caitlin Moran

I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.

Augie Garrido

J. Brent Cox was brilliant with his opportunity,

Dean Johnson

That was a great goal. Stevie took it to the flag and crossed it, and Cabrera volleyed it. That was a brilliant goal. That was the one that put the icing on the game.

Darren Mattix

I think it was a brilliant strategy to name two council members for the task force.

Jason Hill

I think it's probably one of the most brilliant business moves radio has ever seen. He has so many die-hard fans that will follow him anywhere, and with his publicity and this subscription-based radio he has effectively advertised more for SIRIUS than SIRIUS has.