Towns Quotes
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
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Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down
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I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
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My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
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Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
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The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.
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Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
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To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.
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The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.
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My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." "... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita.
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A small town has as many eyes as a fly
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We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
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I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.
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When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we'd never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that's sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.
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My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.
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It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.
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We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.
