Quotes about Brooklyn

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Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a b — it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman... whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them.
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all rea — Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the ch — Kate Carlisle, Homicide in Hardcover
I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange — Kate Carlisle, Homicide in Hardcover
He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the ho — Kate Carlisle, Homicide in Hardcover
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a co — Lev Grossman, The Magicians
I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months. — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made. — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they c — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anyth — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust. — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you. — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, an — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy… — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening… — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion. — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to str — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
…but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity an — Joan Rivers, Enter Talking