I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Peter Hart, the pollster, has a question when he asks about presidential or vice presidential candidates, what kind of a neighbor would… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them. — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration. — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The consciousness and life force do what they want... one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from… — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems… — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. — John Green Copy Share Image
