Towns Quotes

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

The Lady has always moved to the next town and you stumble on after Her.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.

Here in Beacon, I feel like this was the worst year yet. The entire town, like a lot of winter towns, just kind of holed up in the winter.

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one."

That's my point: What's she [Hillary Clinton] got to show for her 30 years around town? Right on!

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.

We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.

Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

Politics is the best game in town.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

I just moved [Bloomington] because I didn't do well with New York. It made me kind of anxious and it was just incredibly expensive. It just has this very small-town feel.

I figured that if anyone could be wildly popular in one town, then that could be replicated everywhere, all you have to do is get the word out.

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.

sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.

Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.

It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.

I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

With me, as a town clerk or city manager, there are certain things that I'm supposed to do - if I don't do them, then I don't deserve to continue in this post.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them

In this town [L.A], I guess it takes homosexuals to be discriminated against in order for someone to finally step UP and wanna do something.

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!