By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies,… — John Leo Copy Share Image
Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways… — Malcolm Wells Copy Share Image
They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it… — James E. Burke Copy Share Image
My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack,… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws… — Peter MacKay Copy Share Image
I once had a letter from a man who asked to do something very weird. He told me he wanted to sit… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there are unbelievable. I've never had… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver. — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew… — Earl Monroe Copy Share Image
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
