East Coast Quotes:

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

- Galen Rowell

topic: Photography, America, People, Landscape Photography, East Coast

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

- Afrika Bambaataa

topic: Hip Hop, Trying, Hips, East Coast

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

- Paul Walker

topic: Attitude, West, East, East Coast

Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Faith, Inspiration, Responsibility, Mans Search For Meaning, Statue Of Liberty

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

- Phillip Noyce

topic: Black And White, Years, Cities, Aboriginal, East Coast

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

- Arthur Laffer

topic: Recovery, West, East, East Coast

Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.

- Wiz Khalifa

topic: New York, East, Pittsburgh, East Coast, Fast Paced

So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

- Rachel Nichols

topic: Fun, Home, Cities, East Coast, Bulgaria

In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.

- Bernie Sanders

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mean, California, People, East Coast, Flooding

I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

- Debby Ryan

topic: Growing Up, Texas, East, East Coast

It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.

- Elayne Boosler

topic: Cities, Comedian, East, Minneapolis, Baton Rouge

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

- Wiz Khalifa

topic: Artist, People, Pittsburgh, East Coast

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

- Matt Taibbi

topic: Art, Educational, East, Liberal Arts, East Coast

I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.

- Lexa Doig

topic: Girl, Easter, West, East Coast

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

- Michael Stipe

topic: Southern, Athens, Georgia, East Coast

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

- Diane Lane

topic: East, World, Journalism, East Coast

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

- Julie Kavner

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: New York, Blonde, Sound, East Coast

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

- Ian Frazier

topic: Nice, Light, Glowing, Some Nice, East Coast

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

- Bill Parcells

topic: Team, Talking, Variables, East Coast

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

- Tommy Lee Jones

topic: Ideas, People, East, East Coast

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

- Colin Firth

topic: Italian, East, Serious, East Coast

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

- Bret Easton Ellis

topic: College, East, Vermont, East Coast

We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Responsibility, Thinking, Order, Statue Of Liberty, East Coast

Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

- Tara Reid

topic: Girl, East, Coast, East Coast, Get To Know Me

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

- Brad Falchuk

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Moving, Boston, Trying, East Coast

When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.

- C. Vivian Stringer

topic: Country, Iowa, Decision, East Coast, Rutgers

I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.

- Dylan Walsh

topic: New York, East, Kind, East Coast, New Yorkers

If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

- Danny Boyle

source: "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: New York, Thinking, Hollywood, East Coast

I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

- Michael B. Jordan

topic: Sorry, Dad, Years, Orange County, East Coast

There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

- Andy Williams

source: "Vegetarian Sophie Monk goes nude for PETA". www.heraldsun.com.au. October 21, 2007.

topic: Stupid, Thinking, People, East Coast

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

- Esa-Pekka Salonen

topic: America, People, Firsts, Pioneering, East Coast

I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.

- Daniel Sunjata

topic: Thinking, Artist, Special People, East Coast, Confluence

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

- Eric Lefkofsky

topic: Chicago, East, West Coast, East Coast

Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance...to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony , between its tides and the life of man...The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.

- James G. Frazer

topic: Philosophy, Men, Sight, East Coast, Dwellers

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

- Don Winslow

topic: Florida, People, Surfing, Surfing The Web, East Coast

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

- Alexandra Wentworth

topic: Thinking, Intellectual, East, East Coast

The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast.... So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet.

- Edmund White

source: Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.1, University of Wisconsin Pres

topic: Stunned, East Coast, Docile

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

- Big Sean

source: Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. June 23, 2011.

topic: East, Melting, West Coast, East Coast

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

- Olivia Wilde

topic: Education, School, Kids, East Coast, Brain Drain

We (Derek Jeter and I) always talk about getting old, gray, and fat when our careers are over and just having a good time. He's like me. He wants to have a good time and be a good person. It's a weird situation for us. It's just like we're looking in the mirror. the only difference is I'm on the West Coast and he's on the East Coast.

- Alex Rodriguez

topic: Careers, Differences, Mirrors, Jeter, Looking In The Mirror

I had made a vow to never stay in my home state to play, I wanted to go as far East Coast as possible, more or less to get away from my family life. I ended up staying in my home state and fell in love with it. I ended up having a beautiful relationship with my family over time and it was the best decision I've ever made.

- Hope Solo

topic: Beautiful, Home, Play, East Coast, Home State

If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

- Bill Burr

topic: Country, East, Chance, East Coast

When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with.

- Mindy Kaling

topic: Ideas, Two, Profound, Insufferable, Miserable Person

Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: War, Rap, People, East Coast, Bill O Reilly

In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.

- Michael Vick

topic: Moving, East, West Coast, East Coast, Make Things Happen

It's really an honor to be included in such an incredible lineup of chefs. The team Borgata has assembled is by far one of the best on the East Coast.

- Geoffrey Zakarian

topic: Team, Honor, East, East Coast

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

- Gary Burton

topic: Player, Boston, East, East Coast

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

- Anthony Michael Hall

topic: Italian, Thinking, Directors, East Coast

Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks. Do you know how absolutely exotic it is that you haven’t been corrupted by fashion and pop culture? A month ago I mentioned Ben Stiller, and do you remember how you responded? ‘Who’s that?’ I loved you all over again.

- Maria Semple

topic: Niceness, Seattle, Do You Know, Hoodies, East Coast

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

topic: School, Ivy, League, Ivy League, Preps