The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board. — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they… — Graham Russell Copy Share Image
You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up… — Tahar Rahim Copy Share Image
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums.… — Stompin' Tom Connors Copy Share Image
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive.… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
You know, the state of Connecticut is... sometimes it's a provincial state. And I've been working very hard to get the endorsement… — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant ,and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home… — Willard Boyle Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“Me and my old man went on a coach trip to Switzerland and Italy once and it was a whole hour further… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
