Towns Quotes · Page 55

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

— John Green

A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched…

— Christopher Hitchens

The arresting officer, who I had literally known, all my life. You know what I mean? This guy lived four doors down…

— Ron White

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

— Julie Burchill

You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction…

— Richelle Mead

To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders…

— John Adams

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

— Jack White

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and…

— Peter Welch

I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's…

— Debra Granik

I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A…

— Justin Bieber

Piper leaned toward [Jason], her caramel braid falling over her shoulder. Her multicolored eyes made it hard for him to think straight.…

— Rick Riordan

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

— Billy Gibbons

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few…

— D. W Brogan

New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called…

— Murray Bookchin

We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is…

— Narendra Modi

Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just…

— Cameron Sinclair

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so…

— Gerard Way

“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.”

— Laurie Notaro

I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so…

— Grace Kelly

The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk…

— Troy Andrews

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

— Hedda Hopper

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

But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington…

— Mark Leibovich

Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its…

— Agnes Repplier