Town Quotes
1859 Town quotes by 1418 unique authors
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From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that…
— Donna J. Haraway
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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and…
— Mervyn Peake
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They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if…
— Sally Stanford
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All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day…
— Michael Nutter
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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers…
— Gavin Newsom
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But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word…
— Alan Seeger
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Rolex, mo sex, good weed, no stress, run my town, arms, chest, lift weights, bowflex
— Wiz Khalifa
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I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware…
— James A. Michener
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Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
— Arnold Rothstein
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I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch…
— Dr. Seuss
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That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the…
— Kent Haruf
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Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Across the river I could…
— Rudolfo Anaya
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In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived,…
— Richard Rodriguez
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In a town full of phonies, I'm not afraid to be me.
— Unknown Author
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A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach…
— Russell Baker
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When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below.…
— Joseph Boyden
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The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ...…
— John Masefield
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Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl...
— Marty Robbins
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Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country,…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the…
— Miles Davis
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There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town,…
— Walt Whitman
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The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in…
— Henry Morton Stanley
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It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when…
— Miriam Toews
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Twitter is a global town square.
— Dick Costolo
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In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
— Vinton Cerf
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