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I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.
— Alice McDermott
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
— David Wilkerson
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
— Barbra Streisand
It doesn't count, like time spent in Brooklyn
— Heinlein Robert A.
Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.
— Theophilus London
If you smile and laugh, people think you're happy. If you act calm and collected, people think you have it together.
— Brooklyn James
Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear?
— Kate Carlisle
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
It may be small comfort, but I believe Rafe doesn't want to kill you."
A light laugh escaped her lips. "Actually, that is a substantial comfort. — Brooklyn Ann
A light laugh escaped her lips. "Actually, that is a substantial comfort. — Brooklyn Ann
I need to go hunting now," he rasped. Before I tear off your clothes and plunge my c*** and my fangs inside you.
— Brooklyn Ann
Let's be real. Like I would date someone who didn't go out of their way to be my nemesis." - Shane Carver (The Carver's Magic)
— B.L. Brooklyn
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
— Carson McCullers
They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.
— Sari Botton
I'm not sure who has the greater fear, mothers or daughters, that daughters will, in fact, become their mothers.
— Brooklyn James
The tears stood in her eyes.
— Betty Smith
I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
— Kathryn Harrison
There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded.
— Sandrine Holt
At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.
— Paul Pierce
Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.
— Caroline Polachek
Brooklyn, New York, and
— Michael J. Tougias
For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
— George Vecsey
...you make your own way in life. Sometimes that's hard for people to love, when they can't make you do what they want you to.
— Brooklyn James
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.
— Michael K. Williams
Poor thing.
To die and never see Brooklyn. — Anne Sexton
To die and never see Brooklyn. — Anne Sexton
The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.
— Joan Rivers
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
— Robert Jay Lifton
You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.
— Don Lemon
My childhood here ... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
— Frank McCourt
I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.
— Rochelle Aytes
I like a hairy chest, I think that's really sexy. I'm not naked a lot oddly enough but I usually wear sweats, its very unsexy.
— Brooklyn Decker
But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again.
— Betty Smith
When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.
— Brooklyn Sudano
I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.
— Daniel Humm
Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down
— Nas
far less than one block in Brooklyn.
— David Baldacci
I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.
— Saoirse Ronan
I take writing very seriously. There's a lot of responsibility in putting blood in the veins of fictional characters.
— Brooklyn Hudson
To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.'
— Chuck Schumer
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
— Anthony Weiner
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.
— Moby
It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.
— Howard Schultz
Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.
— David Plotz
An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.
— Mel Brooks
Being near you, Brooklyn ... it's like breathing. I don't have a choice about it; I just have to do it or I know I won't survive very long.
— Julie Johnson
Move on. It's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book just turn the page.
— Brooklyn Copeland
When it's dark, be the one who turns on the light.
- Joseph, Age 9, Brooklyn, New York, November 29 — R.J. Palacio
- Joseph, Age 9, Brooklyn, New York, November 29 — R.J. Palacio
I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga's hair, but he fired her to work for me.
— Theophilus London
See that's exactly why I don't want a dog." "Why?" "Because it'll just die." "Everybody dies, Brooklyn." Like that makes it okay or something.
— Lisa Schroeder
Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who's freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.
— Peter Dinklage
I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
— Ian Schrager
Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative.
— Fernando Torres
Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.
— Joe Flaherty
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
— Tracy K. Smith
Life is for living and for sharing - but not taking.
— Brooklyn June
I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.
— Lena Dunham
I love Brooklyn; it's a part of who you are.
— Paul Dano
Beth is the kind of girl you want to stuff into a trunk, wrapped in plastic" - Shane Carver (Quote from: The Carver's Magic)
— B.L. Brooklyn
I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
— Connie Stevens
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
— Rudolph A. Marcus
Oh good, apparently when you have sex with Brooklyn Heart, you leave with a fruit basket. What a lovely experience.
— R.S. Grey
I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?
— Kemp Muhl
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.
— Pee Wee Reese
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
— Chris Rock
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.
— Mimi Sheraton
Ah, Querida, an angel of mercy you are not." The
— Brooklyn Ann
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
— Anthony Bourdain
We're both young Dominicans who represent North Brooklyn, but we're also hardened criminals," Reynoso said. "We're dance outlaws.
— Emily Witt
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.
— Grant Achatz
Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city.
— Corey Ann Haydu
It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.
— Kate Christensen
hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island.
— Bruce Springsteen
Only the dead know Brooklyn.
— Thomas Wolfe
You knew I would find you and you knew what I'd do when I did." -Cort (The Carver's Problem)
— B.L. Brooklyn
Holy swoon-gate!' Elliot exclaims when I finally get to the end of my tale. 'If that's what Brooklyn boys are like I'm emigrating as soon as possible!
— Zoe Sugg
I need you more than I need the sunshine.
— Brooklyn Ann
Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.
— Paul Auster
I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.
— Brendan Dooling
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.
— Joan Rivers
I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.
— Brooklyn Sudano
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
— Isaac Mizrahi
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
— Allen Ginsberg
I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.
— Nicole Polizzi
Love doesn't tell time. - Brooklyn
— Lisa Schroeder
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?
— John Goodman
Te amo, Querida," he whispered, stroking her hair. "Tu eres mi luz en la oscuridad." I love you. You are my light in the darkness.
— Brooklyn Ann
Course you can't fucking see, buddy, it's darker than a nun's virgin anus down here.
— Charlie Huston
I'm the muhfucka that did this to you! If y'all don't know me, you better get to know me, or fuck around and wind up wit' a hole in your forehead.
— Brooklyn June
In Brooklyn I am content, the closest we can come to a sustained happiness.
— Arthur Nersesian