Orleans Quotes

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. (John Goodman)
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. View quote
Boris Vian
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
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? View quote
Tennessee Williams
New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities. View quote
Norman Mailer
Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an ecolectic [sic] reading list. View quote
George W. Bush
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. View quote
Ornette Coleman
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. View quote
John Kennedy Toole
New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. View quote
Harry Connick
For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. (Christopher Hitchens)
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation. View quote
Andrew Dickson White
New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. View quote
Mark Twain
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. View quote
Ruta Sepetys
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all. View quote
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great. View quote
Amy Sedaris
When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines. View quote
Aaron Sanchez
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. View quote
Allen Toussaint
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress. (Allen Toussaint)
My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families. View quote
AnnaLynne McCord
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana. View quote
Billy Tauzin
The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area. View quote
Billy Tauzin
And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. View quote
Billy Tauzin