A Quote by Neal Adams

I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island.

Neal Adams

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Boardwalk Carousel Coney Island Island Used Work

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Neal Adams
American - Artist
Born: June 15, 1941

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

David Blaine

I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.

Neal Adams

There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.

Tom Ford

We used to cut out of school and go to Coney Island to record songs almost every day.

Prodigy

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

Elbert Hubbard

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

Arlo Guthrie

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Thornton Wilder

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

Jerry Della Femina

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

Joshua Foer

When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.

Jimmy Smits

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

Harold Feinstein

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.