#orleans

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America. ↗

— Al Roker

#any #could #country #down #new

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#channel #cover #festival #great #i

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#katrina #new-orleans #racism #racism

Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl. Damn. He’d better not be falling for her. Sure she’s cute, but I can’t think about that. ↗

— Jenna-Lynne Duncan

#kidnapping #new-orleans #romance #young-adult #new-adult

She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I could back down now. ↗

— Jenna-Lynne Duncan

#mardi-gras #new-orleans #paranormal #romance #teaser

The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#ignatius-j-reilly #new-orleans #humor

At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit? ↗

— Tom Piazza

#new-orleans #rebuild #business

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose ↗

— Chris Rose

#freedom #fun #new-orleans #freedom

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white? ↗

— Sean Hannity

#buses #had #his #mayor #new

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#between #blues #chord #difference #different