Towns Quotes

In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.

I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

A paper town for a paper girl.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.