Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home. — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah. — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City.… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I noticed you tore down Donovan's house." He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I think it's because if I have the time I take the time to sign every autograph I can after a show.… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking… — J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man. — Arnold Rothstein Copy Share Image
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova. — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
