Downtown famous quotes

There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.
-- Amy Hempel

#Character #Giving #Downtown

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.
-- ASAP Rocky

#Growing Up #East #Downtown

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.
-- Bobby Heenan

#Two #Stories #Downtown

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.
-- Dylan McDermott

#Zuma #Different #Downtown

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
-- Ed McMahon

#Community #Downtown #Kind

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.
-- Eydie Gorme

#Wedding #Two #Downtown

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
-- Frank Gehry

#Cities #Downtown #Linear

A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.
-- Greg Smith

#Majority #Downtown #Common

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.
-- Guy Lafleur

#Night #Important #Downtown

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
-- Harrison Salisbury

#Morning #Cost #Downtown

You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.
-- Jane Jacobs

#People #Downtown #Rely

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Night #Eight #Downtown

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
-- Martha Plimpton

#Mother #New York #Downtown

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.
-- Martin Scorsese

#New York #Downtown #Different

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.
-- Michael Imperioli

#Pain #Cities #Downtown

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov

#Careers #People #Downtown

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.
-- Neil Young

#Talking #People #Downtown

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.
-- Peter York

#New York #Downtown #Cash

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.
-- Portia de Rossi

#Acting #Downtown #Driving

It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.
-- Tanya Huff

#Forever #Downtown #World

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.
-- Thomas Reid

#Downtown #Renaissance #Wanted

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.
-- Tony Hatch

#Lonely #Solitude #Downtown

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.
-- Tony Hatch

#Worry #Silence #Downtown

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.
-- William Petersen

#Wife #Downtown #Goes On

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
-- Dan Gilroy

#Downtown #Cement #Freeways

No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.
-- Kreesha Turner

#Class #Uptown #Downtown

I became interested in film as a viewer when I was a teenager. I would spend entire afternoons in an arthouse theater in downtown Santiago. I didn't really expect to be a filmmaker back then. But it was clearly an interest.
-- Omar Zuniga

#Teenager #Downtown #Afternoon

In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it.
-- Paul F. Tompkins

#Downtown #Teens #Phases