Local Quotes

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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to… — George Washington
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms… — William Shakespeare
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the… — Rebecca Solnit
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the… — Jasper Fforde
No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club,… — George Carlin
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot… — N.D. Wilson
There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. — Ursula K. Le Guin
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. — William Blake
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. — Markus Zusak
You use the word "Infinity" very glibly.... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that… — Mike Carey
...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local… — Alice Hoffman
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. Itâ€™s like network television. Iâ€™m your local cable access… — Thomas Ligotti
I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The… — George Saunders
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has… — C.S. Lewis
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun… — Andrea Camilleri
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard… — Anthony Bourdain
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. — Ken Bruen
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. — David Levithan
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary… — Margaret Atwood

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