Towns Quotes

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

Is it okay to go the roof of the tallest building in your town and jerk off into the street?

I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.

I like cold. I really like to go to cold towns. I love gray. I love winter.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.

... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back.

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

I enjoy small towns, I've got my friends there. I have friends in L.A. too, but I'm not much on traffic.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.

I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

All I can do when I'm on stage is do a show where when I come back into town they cannot possibly afford to miss the show because they remember how fun it was.

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done.