And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in… — Ken Kelly Copy Share Image
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and… — Maya Angelou 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
I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its… — Ndamukong Suh Copy Share Image
It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join it? It should be, I've decided to wait for… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
[On Hollywood:] This is no town for a come back, people are too unsure of themselves. — Pamela Moore Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There's no substitute for business investment, business innovation - it's not government that creates jobs in towns and cities across the U.K. — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image