Brooke Astor Quotes

If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I’m not dressed up or I’m not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I’m talking down to them.

Brooke Astor

Quotes to Explore

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

Carlos Fuentes
- Needs
- Cuba
- Dose
As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

Felicity Jones
- Up
- Character
- Child
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Wayne Gretzky
- Going
- Been
- Where
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Abraham Verghese
- Life
- Love
- Medicine
For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.

Jack McBrayer
- Time
- Like
- Games
We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.

Adam Davidson
- Country
- American
- History