Quotes tagged ‘Brooklyn’

“On a clear day, looking out at the towers along the East River, you could practically see their tiny handprints smeared on the glass: the competition.”

— Jessica Pressler, thecut.com

“Neapolitan pizzerias, and newfangled arcades have popped up alongside the family-run groceries and flower shops.”

— Simone Kitchens, grubstreet.com

“The event was good, and made me think about how precious time is and why as 26-year-olds, memes from high school are still cool.”

— Money Diaries, refinery29.com

“Thank God for the rain which has helped wash away the garbage and trash off the sidewalks. I'm workin' long hours now, six in the afternoon to six in the morning. Sometimes even eight in the morning, six days a week. Sometimes seven days a week. It's a long hustle but it keeps me real busy. I can ta…”

— Paul Schrader, Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro, imdb.com

“after Nazim Hikmet, for & after Rassan At the Detroit Metro Airport with the turtle-hours to spare between now & my flight, there is such a thing as the kindness of the conveyor belt who lends me its slow, strange mollusk foot as I stand quiet, exhausted, having been alone in my bed for days now, sl…”

— Aracelis Girmay, apmpodcasts.org

“When the bass drops on Bill Withers’ Better Off Dead, it’s like 7 a.m. and I confess I’m looking over my shoulder once or twice just to make sure no one in Brooklyn is peeking into my third-floor window to see me in pajamas I haven’t washed for three weeks before I slide from sink to stove in one lo…”

— Patrick Rosal, apmpodcasts.org

“All the animals come out at night—whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to…”

— Paul Schrader, Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro, imdb.com

“Tessio: Barzini's people chisel my territory and we do nothing about it. Pretty soon there won't be anyplace in Brooklyn that I can hang my hat. Michael: Try and be patient. Clemenza: I'm not asking for help, Mike, just take off the handcuffs. Michael: Be patient. Clemenza: We gotta protect ourselve…”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Hagen, Robert Duvall, imdb.com

“There was a cyclone in Brooklyn last year. It destroyed two vintage T-shirt shops and a banjo”

— Robert Carlock, Frank Rossitano, Judah Friedlander, imdb.com

“I’m no Italian—I was born in Brooklyn.”

— Al Capone, smithsonianmag.com

“The booze was cheap because it had to be. The bands were cool because bands were still cool then. Everyone knew that everyone else would go there, largely because there was nowhere much else to go.”

— Allison P. Davis, thecut.com

“You wake up late for school, man, you don't wanna go You ask your mom please, but she still says no”

— Beastie Boys, open.spotify.com

“Foot on the pedal Never ever false metal Engine running hotter than a boiling kettle”

— Beastie Boys, open.spotify.com

“If I went for the dollar, I would really be a super-rich person who played it safe. The way to make the most money in this country is to deal with sex without touching on politics. Mafia people I knew in the early years of SCREW's existence said, ‘Quit attacking the Pope. Quit attacking the politici…”

— Al Goldstein, filthy.media

“Your silver tongue it masks your hungry hate While your haggard heart whispers through its cracking cage You still can change, you have to know, you still can change I know, I know, for now I wanna be this way”

— Kevin Devine, open.spotify.com

“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York.”

— Betty Smith, amazon.com

“You remind Anna, if she asks why That a thief stole my heart while she was making up her mind I heard she lives in Brooklyn with the cool And goes crazy over that New York scene on 7th Avenue. But I used to wait at the diner a million nights without her Praying she won't cancel again tonight And the…”

— Gaslight Anthem, open.spotify.com

“The playback: late night, Brooklyn, a pot of coffee, and a chair by the window.”

— Rob Sheffield, amazon.com

“So what we five deep in a two door whip We gotta get where we going if you fit you fit”

— Joell Ortiz, open.spotify.com