Towns Quotes · Page 46

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind…

— Joe Thompson

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

— Byron Dorgan

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

— Bruce Springsteen

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are…

— Kent Haruf

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for…

— Russ Feingold

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even…

— Louise Erdrich

Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were…

— Sarah Dessen

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President…

— Mitt Romney

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was…

— Jane Smiley

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs…

— Andrew Flintoff

Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they…

— Willa Cather

We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back…

— George W. Bush

On the road you can really be more regular about it and work it into daily routines. There's no town that doesn't…

— Aaron Tippin

Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better. And Molly, too; those are happy drugs - social drugs. They…

— Miley Cyrus

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University,…

— Paul Engle

One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least,…

— Billy Gibbons

The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use…

— Tom Turner

In the old days when I was enforcing illegal immigration laws, when I had the authority from the 287G, everybody accused me…

— Joe Arpaio

I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented…

— Seth Godin

Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying…

— Scott Westerfeld

No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you…

— Mary Karr

“Having spent a long time in open spaces, whether sea or desert, it is a luxury to be able to take refuge…

— Georges Limbour

An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors.…

— Tom Waits

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled…

— Hedda Hopper

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

— Jacqueline Bisset

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of…

— Betty Buckley

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town…

— Susan Orlean

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An…

— Christina Stead

They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a…

— Johnny Vegas

Yazoo is the name of an old blues label and also a town in America. I like it because it doesn't mean…

— Alison Moyet

There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I'm a guy who loves…

— Tavis Smiley

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a…

— Jerry Saltz

The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time,…

— Logan Lerman

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies…

— Joe Jonas

You're in a rather odd mood today." I'm soaking wet, Eloise." No need to snap at me about it, I didn't force…

— Julia Quinn

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;…

— Karl Marx

Man, I live in Nashville. I know how good other songwriters and singers are around here. There's a wealth of talent in…

— Jamey Johnson

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be…

— Garrett Hedlund