#brooklyn

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

#kind #retreat #writer

Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#brooklyn #funny #writers #funny

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#brooklyn #build #buy #people #scientists

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#grew #household #i #live #live music

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #al #brooklyn #cells #chairman

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#began #bronx #brooklyn #gangs #happen

The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night. ↗

— Bob Dole

#dodgers #had #hitter #last #last night

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#city #disproportionately #financial #financial services #i

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#cooks #genius #grew #heavier #husband

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#girl #i #i think #myself #think