Towns Quotes · Page 10

St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

— Oscar Wilde

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

— Jasmine Guinness

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

— Dick Gregory

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

— Simone Weil

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

— David Mamet

Anytime we go to a new town I try to book a show. I literally know nothing about the club.

— Joe Rogan

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

— Eric Church

We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a…

— Michael Hutchence

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

— Leona Lewis

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in…

— Robert Frost

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every…

— Alan Autry

Never eat at a place called 'Moms', but if the only other place in town has a sign that says 'Eats', go…

— W. C. Fields

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

— David Lynch

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town,…

— Jamie Farr

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the…

— William Shakespeare

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend…

— Angelina Jolie

To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US…

— Juan Cole

It will be interesting to see if Seoul's urban vocabulary of numerous, ever-present interactive screens will translate to other cities such as…

— Jan Chipchase

It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me…

— Anonymous

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't…

— Sarah Vowell

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite…

— Roger Bannister

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could…

— Ellie Goulding

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many…

— William Shakespeare

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was…

— Arundhati Roy

The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well.…

— Stephen King

Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that…

— Ursula Vernon

In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this…

— M.I.A

Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or…

— Robert Christopher Riley

The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He…

— Franklin P. Adams

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

— Taylor Swift

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

— Hedi Slimane

I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.

— Richard Kind

In little towns like mine that's all they got.

— Kenny Chesney

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.

— Pete Hamill

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

— Rita Mae Brown

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

— Edna Ferber

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

— J. Vernon McGee