Towns Quotes

There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

I love playing in the UK because there are some topics that you just can't talk about in the States without getting run out of town. So let me just say this: Louis C. K.'s new show sucks.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

Just like dust, we settle in this town.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever - it's fun - but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.

This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.

Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.