Quotes for All
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. … Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; … Read more
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
I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki. Eric Hernandez
He’d been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that’s when he got religion. Elton John
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
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. Frank Gehry
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
Downtown New York, I’m within certain styles of music and I’m also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. So DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles … Read more
DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous. DJ Spooky
My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. – my hometown – right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had … Read more