Quotes & Sayings About New Orleans Tennessee Williams

My places were emotional, primarily. I wrote of locales in which I had lived, or in which I imagined I could live, but the topography was primal and sexual and terminal. It bore no distinct architecture or design or dialect. It was merely human and in peril, which is to say universal. But on Royal and Coliseum and Vista--streets I cannot relinquish--I found my places and I dreamed a narrative. Can I go there and find it again?"--Tennessee Williams — James Grissom

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. — Louis XIV

Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not. — Kate Chopin

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare. — Ed Begley Jr.

Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full. — Micky Dolenz

I hope to die in my sleep, when the time comes, and I hope it will be in the beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed which is associated with so much love. — Tennessee Williams

I tried not to read anything into his being there; things like this weren't serendipitous when you lived in the smallest town ever. — Heather Demetrios

The wise are in the light,
moving forward;
the foolish are in the dark,
moving backwards. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years. — Adrian Grenier

But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be. — Rene Descartes

Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? — Tennessee Williams

New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you, teach you tricks of the heart you thought Tennessee Williams was just kidding about. And in August it could break your spirit. — Julie Smith

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.' — Ruth Rendell