Quotes and Sayings About New Orleans
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Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
-- Aaron Broussard -
Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.
-- Aaron Broussard -
I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.
-- Al Roker -
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.
-- 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 -
I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
-- Amanda Palmer -
And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.
-- Andrea Gibson -
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A.M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.
-- Andrei Codrescu -
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
-- Andrei Codrescu -
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.
-- AnnaLynne McCord -
I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.
-- Anne Rice -
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants in New York, you'll find something similar to it in Paris or Copenhagen or Chicago. But there is no place like New Orleans. So it's a must-see city because there's no explaining it, no describing it. You can't compare it to anything. So, far and away New Orleans.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.
-- Anthony Mackie -
In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.
-- Anthony Mackie -
The Saints are doing a good job adjusting. I think their focus is on trying to make the best of their season, but also to try and help the people of New Orleans in the process. From everything I've seen and heard they are doing a good job of it.
-- Archie Manning -
New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.
-- Archie Manning -
I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina,
-- Arne Duncan -
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
-- Bill Kreutzmann -
It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.
-- Bill Taylor -
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
-- Billie Holiday -
There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people there lack the intelligence to know what they are seeing, so that's why the UFO's go there.
-- Billy Corgan -
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.
-- Billy Tauzin -
New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
-- 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.
-- Billy Tauzin -
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
-- Billy Tauzin
