Town Quotes
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'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
Eddie Murphy
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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.
Maya Angelou
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I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.
Harold Prince
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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
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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
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Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.
Ian Hunter
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The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.
Gary Lineker
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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
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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
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Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes.
Lee Iacocca
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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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
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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
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Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.
Muhammad Ali
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The first day of 'The Town' was one of the most satisfying days of my career.
Ben Affleck
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Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!
Rachel Caine
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I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.
Ewan McGregor
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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
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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
Robert Frost
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This town will be the downfall of us all.
Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
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I think it's a real neat town, ... This is beautiful country.
J. M. Roberts
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I don't like bad mouthing towns and just thinking that I live in such a great place. I mean, I would hate to live in a small town and have a public persona say, "That town sucks." I would really not want to hear that.
Carlos Dengler Interpol
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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
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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