Song Brooklyn Quotes & Sayings

Hi! I'm Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble! — Douglas Coupland

I never believed I was going to have a baby until I heard her cry. — Liane Moriarty

I love lying here with you, under the books. — Cath Crowley

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books. — Pat Brown

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. — Ernest Hemingway,

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends. — Jo Walton

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax. — Eric Hoffer

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down! — Rod Stewart

Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything. — Nirmala Srivastava

It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead of this rambling march of verses, Rick understands that music needs hooks. You need that repeated chorus, that everyone can sing along to. — Scott Avett

The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions. — Lawren Harris

My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that. — Bruno Mars

1883. Third Month 16

Some moments set my heart on fire, and that's when language seems the smallest. Yet precisely these bursts of feeling make me long to write. I sit now in a high-walled courtyard, amid the green smells and slanted light of early spring, with that familiar burning in my heart. I'll need to destroy these pages before returning home, but no matter; for the first time since Mother's death, words come to me. — Janet Benton

So that's why vampires are so pissed off all the time? Because their junk's gone rusty? — S.L.J. Shortt

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm. — Robyn Hitchcock