Town Quotes

• In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Mom
  • Poor
  • Town

• I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Way
  • Dinner
  • Airport

• It was good growing up in a small town. The whole town would shut down on Friday, 5 o'clock. If I'd been a bank robber or wanted to ransack a house, there wasn't nobody in town. The cops would go, too. They'd lead the bus to wherever, to Plano or Cooper or Commerce, wherever we was playing. It was something for a town to rally around, whether we had a winning season or a losing season. It was a place to go gossip, a place to go see friends.

  

  Walt Garrison
  • Friends
  • Small
  • See

• The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Win
  • Town
  • Trend

• But I've also been around this town long enough to know that when nobody is calling you and saying, 'Hang in there,' that isn't a great signal either.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Great
  • Long
  • Hang

• Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Turn
  • Town
  • Tubes

• I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

  

  Harold Prince
  • College
  • Loved
  • Town

• I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Up
  • Road
  • Tobacco

• Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Friend
  • Town
  • Trick

• I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,” Claire said. “As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn’t vote him to be in charge.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Free
  • Human

• I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Long
  • Wanted

• After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."

  

  Arturo Toscanini
  • Town
  • Concert
  • Note

• Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Chances
  • Town
  • Slim

• I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live?

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Town
  • Bookstore

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

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Idea
  • Town
  • Don't Like

• Anywhere we go in the States, people know we're from out of town: like, we stick out like sore thumbs. People are like, 'Freaks! Go cut your hair!' and whatever. It's a little weird.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • People
  • States
  • Freaks

• H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

  

  Mark Twain
  • Majority
  • Fools
  • Town

• There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • World
  • Run
  • Town

• I'm not real happy that we are here this late in the session, ... But we are not going to be pushed out of town with a bad deal.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Happy

• I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.

  

  Michael Heisley
  • Good
  • Involved
  • Frankly

• On the road you can really be more regular about it and work it into daily routines. There's no town that doesn't have a gym. And if you find one that actually doesn't, you can go to the local high school. They always have one.

  

  Aaron Tippin
  • Road
  • Gym
  • Town

• Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Stop
  • Town

• The first day of 'The Town' was one of the most satisfying days of my career.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Career
  • Town

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