Towns Quotes

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

I see the rodeo's in town again.

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.

In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine.

When I look back, I'm glad I grew up in a small town. There, it's just you, your family and whatever you make of it.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

Stand-up for me is usually a weekend thing. I go out of town and just do it.

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

I put music on and I drive around town.

L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

I am a small-town girl.

They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

The Vikings need to go down there and hit that town like Katrina.

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

I noticed you tore down Donovan's house." He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

The Pope also said that while he's in town he would like to go see 'The Book of Mormon.'

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.

The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

[Donna] Brazile had sent an email to a top [Hillary] Clinton aide the day before the town hall warning of just that question with almost the identical wording.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.