Downtown Quotations

I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. I'm not a Wall Street lawyer, I'm a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.

In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.

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.

I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know?

I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. I'm not a Wall Street lawyer, I'm a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh. One of the clients is Mellon Bank, which merged with the Bank of New York Mellon a number of years ago. And I have for years have done software licensing for Mellon.

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.

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.

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

The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.

Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.

My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

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.

Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.

After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway.

I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

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.

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

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion?

I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.

I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.

I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.

Working on the Obama campaign was a life-changer for me. I realized during that campaign that structure is the name of the game, and so, soon after the election, filmmaker Adam Baran and I started Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series at the IFC Film Center in downtown New York that invites queer artists to present the films they love to an audience.

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.

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.

I throw a leather biker jacket over everything. It adds an instant downtown cool vibe and stops a look becoming too girlie. Bonus points if you wear it like a cape!

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.

I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.

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.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

Music City is Music City wherever you are in the city. The Nashville Palace gives us a place to take the young acts we develop downtown and take them to a bigger stage.

One of the first things we will do is offer our downtown lights to be sponsored by people. Marilyn Mathews will be heading that up. We will get that information out later. Hopefully next spring Charlie Hartley will be successful with her bridge lighting grant.

I would get on the bike every morning and ride around downtown with a knapsack on my back and literally pick up orders, most of them sympathy orders. I just kept that route every day just to let people know we were serious.

I guess I made friends with people who were not too much the party type. But I was never the type of person who would like to party too much. I never felt the urge to do that, I much prefer going downtown for a dinner or a movie. So it didn't matter whether I was younger.

Nobody owns a market. There's always competition. The big thing is it's a huge bet on downtown. These are big prices. I think it's validation that downtown San Diego is doing something right.

I wouldn't call it looting. What I have seen is desperate people kind of wandering around here in downtown Gulfport. There are a lot of police here in Gulfport, so you can't get away with looting. But I have seen people picking stuff up from the wreckage. I saw a man with two bottles of olive oil. He was hoping to try to cook something up. He says he has no water. He doesn't really have much of a place to go. So there are a lot of people just desperately in need.

We had been planning that for ages. That was our goal, to get her a downtown pass.

Obviously, when you're coming downtown to go to school and you're coming straight from work, you're going to grab something to eat.

One of the things we've seen this past year is when 65 has an accident and it's blocked, there's not a good evacuation route off the interstate other than through downtown Cullman on 31 highway, ... This will give us an extra route. It's no fun getting stuck on the interstate.

One thing that's great is if you're staying downtown at the Renaissance, you don't even have to leave the hotel. The hotel has been fantastic and the people are real good. So far it's been great.

One important consideration is how the arena would link downtown -- how people can get from one venue to another venue and feel like it is all one linked area, where you feel comfortable as a pedestrian walking a couple of blocks,

One of the strengths we're seeing in terms of our downtown community is growth in health care-related industry.

Nothing in downtown redevelopment happens overnight. It just takes a lot of time.

Obviously, building additional housing in the urban infill of downtown ... is something the (City) Commission and I believe is good,

People will pay more to be living farther up in the air, with a spectacular view of downtown and the waterfall.

I got into paying attention to cities and when I moved downtown I would go into stores that were more mom and pop, so I would get to meet the people and talk to them, ... A lot of them pushed me and said I should run for council. Also, a lot of my old bosses said I should get into politics because I seem like a person who would care enough to do what is right.

I'd like to see a renewed focus on our neighborhoods, not only our neighborhoods but on our downtown area. To me, we have to have a clean environment downtown so our businesses can thrive.

I didn't want to come here and still have to go downtown to eat. There's only so much I can do at Sylvia's.

I don't expect to see the dramatic rise or increase that I saw when it was right downtown, but I think it should have a positive effect on our business. I would rather it be downtown, of course, but I'm a downtown girl.

If we didn't have retailing, we wouldn't have downtown as we know it. Anytime you can be a part of a district that's doing well, your business is bound to benefit.

If they do this, I believe they are still focused on redeveloping downtown and keeping it as their number one priority.

Many of the new businesses that are coming downtown are bringing a new energy.

There are two big market segments driving downtown residential: the young professionals and the empty nesters. We've had a very low number of empty nesters.

Since the embassy in Nairobi is right in the middle of downtown, you can't very well protect against a bomb, a car bomb, that just drives up the main road downtown and blows up. There is a similar situation in Dar es Salaam.

She never owned or drove a car. She lived about five miles from downtown and felt she couldn't afford a cab. So she took a bus. I tried to tell her she had the money to pay for a cab, but she thought it was a waste of money. She walked to Mass every day.

Second to none...People wanna live downtown. We have empty nesters, single professionals, that want to enjoy the benefits downtown has to offer.

We've never done a study, but we think the number of people coming downtown will impact the downtown economy. We hope they will see a restaurant or retail shop they like and come back.

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It's kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily.

I'd been doing what everyone else was -- concrete multiplexes -- and shoot, it worked. But I'd managed the old Miller downtown in the days when the movie was a total kind of experience.

Groups feeding the homeless at the Downtown Plaza has had unintended consequences. There are so many folks clustered in downtown - it's becoming a crisis.

Giant Eagle has no plans for a Downtown location at this time. That would consist of the Lazarus building or any other often-reported locations.

Getting these two schools to come to agree on coming to an independent site is really big. It was difficult, but in the end the reward will be a really good day, a good weekend for downtown Baltimore.

From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

I feel like I?m in downtown Beirut. The employee paranoia level is through the roof.

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek' article about the emerging downtown club scene, and, well, that was it for NYU. I was off and running.

I go back over it in my mind, do it probably too often. There's really nothing. We gave a good proposal. It was a different type of proposal than Charlotte was -- the difference between a downtown museum there and something out on the interstate here. I'm proud of the work we did. I stand by the proposal we made.

I envision it being a lot like downtown Sarasota is today.

For tomorrow to be successful we're going to need the continued support and growth of our membership and our community. Our vision is that downtown Mount Vernon and the Central Business District will be the choice for shopping, dining, entertainment, recreation and tourism in Ohio.

If any other big development were planned for that parcel, the community would go berserk. And if I were a downtown business owner I would be screaming my head off. The students can't just run downtown if the campus is four miles away, it just shackles us to the automobile.

I had said before that I would only be in favor of this if the money would be used for economic development, ... Downtown improvements are a big factor here. A lot of people move here because of what they see downtown. We can't afford to rest on our laurels.

Certainly a grocery store is a watershed event for the creation of a neighborhood Downtown and we think it's great.

Certainly, the beginning of Chinese New Year helped the January 2006 numbers as it helped February's numbers last year. Every crevice of Las Vegas had strong numbers and this can only point to strong demand for product from Las Vegas locals to Hawaiians visiting downtown alike.

But Chicago is not just downtown and the Loop. It's really a city of neighborhoods, too.

BB&T has been a champion in downtown revitalization in Lenoir. We've done quite a lot. We helped create quite a few jobs with the retail spaces.

Having a W adjacent to the arena will again show everyone that it's increasingly cool to be in downtown Phoenix, even when it's hot, ... I applaud Mr. Sarver and his associates for their support of the downtown community in such a bold and creative way.

Having Starbucks downtown will make a statement about downtown being a place to do business.

We've enlarged the children's fair and the downtown merchants will be offering some sales. We concentrate on making the festival better, which, if that means doing more things, we do. But, the focus is to make sure it's fun and family-oriented and to make sure community groups are showcased.

We've gone from 50 to 60 bicycle commuters Downtown in 2002 to several hundred in 2005. We've also gotten lots more requests for information on cycling in the city.

We've got to make sure the livability of our downtown community is protected. And we can't do that with the threat of condemnation.

I have a hard time figuring out how building a massive expansion to the Wal-Mart will help your downtown retailers.

We look forward to working closely with the Penguins as well as state and local officials as we move through the application process. Redevelopment of the Lower Hill and Uptown Districts will return the neighborhood to the community, and funding a new multi-purpose arena will keep the Penguins in Pittsburgh, making this project a win/win for the entire community. At the Isle, we believe that downtown Pittsburgh will become the best entertainment venue in the region.

If the idea of the borough was to make the workers disappear, that failed completely. We now have the workers in downtown in many corners.

We expect to see some acceleration in recovery in areas like downtown Tokyo. This seems like a sensible time for strong-balance-sheet real estate companies to take what could be a golden opportunity.

There is a growing awareness of downtown as one of our primary assets -- that it's an economic driver and one of the reasons people live here.

The people we're looking for don't really frequent the bars of downtown now, ... We're marketing mostly for business professionals.

The purpose is to facilitate right turns off the Memorial Bridge for people heading to the downtown area. The work done for the cut-through had a specific purpose, and it was done by the state. This is a city project that will enhance the work done by the state.

We took this program on, and I like being able to put something in the downtown area that will be here years after I'm gone.

Joe has provided strong leadership during his two years at the Fremont Street Experience -- exactly what we expected from his many years of marketing and senior executive experience. During his time as president and chief executive, the Fremont Street Experience launched new light show technology, hosted several marquis events for the Las Vegas Centennial celebration, and managed through a number of substantial ownership changes with member hotel/casino properties. Joe was also instrumental with the City's successful efforts to energize major new developments throughout the Downtown area.

Long-term, I see downtown Bradenton becoming a very unique city because they want it to be. I see a tremendous change along the riverfront.

Little E said if they call me to come do something I'll get in my car and go to downtown Charlotte, but I'm not going to Atlanta. That had a lot of influence on the decision.

Mark plays by his own rules. As downtown was faced with competition from the suburbs, Mark has hung in there. He's transformed his business using modern tools. He has a real entrepreneurial spirit.

Some of the basic systems are wearing out mechanical, electrical systems, it's inefficient at the same time city services are dispensed all over downtown and there's an inefficiency with that.

That benefits businesses on (U.S.) 72 because they'll drive by and hopefully stop on their way to downtown. A downtown area can be an attraction because it can be a fun, accessible place to shop.