A Quote by Neal Adams

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

Neal Adams

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About Brooklyn Coney Island Everything Home Island Know More Queens Than Understand

Quote Author

Neal Adams
American - Artist
Born: June 15, 1941

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

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Thornton Wilder

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

Neal Adams

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

Arlo Guthrie

I'm a black kid from the ghetto of Coney Island, Brooklyn, who only ever dreamed of playing in the NBA. So to have that dream come true but then go on this second journey in China... it's so far beyond anything that kid could have imagined.

Stephon Marbury

I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Jerry Della Femina

I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in 'Colossus' could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.

Colson Whitehead

My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

Gilbert Gottfried

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

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

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

Prodigy

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

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.