33 Quotes by Chris Rose

The most open, joyous, free-wheeling, celebratory city in the country is broken, hurting, down on its knees. Failing. Begging for help. Somebody turn this movie off; I don't want to watch it anymore. I want a slow news day. I want a no news day.

Once we get it out to the lake, we will go over it and see if we can determine what happened,

I have unwittingly and unwillingly become an emotional flashpoint. That's made me an audience for other people's pain.

I'll miss more than anything being a a part of that team. We've accomplished a lot in the last three years.

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say.

When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry." New Orleans. I'm so sorry. That's not the way it was before,not the way it's supposed to be. When people find out you're from New Orleans, they're supposed to tell you about how they got drunk there once, or fell in love there, or first heard the music there that changed their lives. At worst people would say: "I've always wanted to go there." But now, it's just: "I'm sorry." Man, that kills me. That just kills me.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.