Towns Quotations | Page 3

There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.

We have more work to do. We're taking small and slow steps. Other towns do it. We can do it.

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

When I look back, I'm glad I grew up in a small town. There, it's just you, your family and whatever you make of it.

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.

My town's quite small and you kinda recognize everyone when you see them, so I definitely get funny looks from people.

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

We always had a standing rule on economic development that towns didn't steal from each other. If they were going to do that, they didn't get any help from the state. I think the same thing should apply here.

Twitter is a global town square.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.

We are going to have to exponentially increase rail security, ... to give the cities and towns across our country the security they need.

Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

The eye on the prize is that we get the resources we need so folks have the confidence that they can come back, and there's a long-term commitment of the federal government to be the state's partner in protecting our cities and towns from hurricanes and restoring the coast.

The real downside of this hysteria is that people hear rumors about outages in other towns and rush out to gas up, thereby increasing the likelihood of gas lines and outages in their own town.

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.

This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If you go up to Newcastle, you can tell that the town's really had money, or Liverpool, you know, the northern towns have got grandeur, whereas Medway, being just a sort of garrison town and dockyard town, you don't have anything like Earl Grey Square or anything like that.

If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Paris ain't much of a town.

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

When towns have sent out suicide bombers to fire incessantly and indiscriminately into Jewish communities, they become legitimate targets.

There are towns where this is readily accepted and towns where it isn't. It's important to us that it be accepted. We're not going to build a wind plant where it's not wanted.

There are people who have lived all of their lives in Garber that know a lot of people in Billings and vice versa. It was a common sense co-opt. The towns are similar.

liberty and civilisation have everywhere and at all times emanated from towns

Last year the virus affected 62 towns in 10 Russian regions, while since the start of 2006, already 56 towns in nine regions have been affected.

Many of Britain's towns and cities are falling victim to drunk and disorderly behavior at the weekend. We believe that these ads will reinforce the message that the police now have increased powers to deal with this sort of anti-social behavior.

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

One factor that commonly comes up in towns that install wireless early is that they didn't have something like DSL available. We have DSL, now we have cable modems, now we have several options. Sometimes the good enough is the enemy of the better. The fact that we've got good enough for most people slows it down.

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Montana is transitioning from a natural resource economy to a human-resource-based economy. Economic production is now more decentralized than 30 years ago. This has flattened the economic playing field so that businesses can do things in small towns that used to have to be done in big cities.

Nevada's one of the best towns we've been in weather-wise. I like the warmth,

New Hope was one of the most diverse towns that I had ever been in.

Obviously, the DOE likes to see towns address those issues as much as possible.

Philly has always been one of our favorite towns to play in, and the fans have been very loyal and very supportive over the years.

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.

I don't know of any town on the Cape that has that position. Towns have hired consultants but not their own paid person.

I do not think that in this situation we can transfer the towns to the Palestinians. They are not exerting any control.

I believe what happened tonight is part of a plan, is part of what we are going to see is an escalation hitting towns and hitting the radio station,

I believe that what has happened in West Tisbury is going to have echoes for years to come around the ways we raise property taxes in Massachusetts. I think Bill Graham has shown us that there are huge flaws - frightening flaws - in the way towns conduct this type of business. There can be nothing arbitrary - and there should be nothing subjective - about the process of taxation. That's been a cornerstone of our government and our society.

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things.

Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project,

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me up and she had been mentioning, prior to that, this community production of 'Godspell', a couple towns over. I was reluctant, at first, and she bribed me with some great dinner that was in that town, neighboring the theater.

Given the fact that you can count on one hand the number of other towns in Maine that have a wind turbine ordinance -- if there's any at all, I think it's unrealistic to expect us to get together an ordinance from scratch that covers all the safety issues.

Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today-in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped-always somebody else's horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!

I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.

What makes Seattle unusual is that it's one of three great theater towns in the United States.

The people in country towns seem to have a high level of connection with one another, they have good relationships, the neighbors know their kids and look out for them.

We're one of the fortunate towns that are growing, and that's providing (additional) operating funds ....

What we are trying to do is raise awareness of the program. A lot of towns donate money to help the program, but not near the amount that we need. We wanted the people who participated to see first hand what the program does.

West Virginia has long been a hotbed for NASCAR. It is certainly one of the top states in the country in terms of fan support. The ONMC is all about bringing NASCAR to the cities and towns across America. NASCAR fans all across America are gravitating toward the local chapters and the Charleston chapter has been a leader in this area.

What you're seeing is that American consumers are using rental cars in their home towns and neighborhoods for many needs beyond replacements for automobiles that are in the shop. They're renting for corporate and leisure needs, driving vacations, an extra car, or a different kind of car.

Here in Mobile, it's bad, very bad. Thousands without power, people fighting for petrol, literally. We did not fare as badly as Gulfport, Biloxi or New Orleans, but there are towns totally obliterated, gone.

Her professional experience and knowledge of the issues specific to Act 68 are important as towns continue to adjust to the new requirement.

We must incorporate the culture of planning in our towns and cities.

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history and has caused unimaginable devastation and heartbreak throughout the Gulf Coast region. A vast coastline of towns and communities has been decimated,

This was a good area for boxing. A lot of these towns would have teams. It was the thing to do.

It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We're really trying to open that discussion and get towns to cooperate.

It hits home in the sense that too many small towns are losing young men like this.

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.

I think all the towns feel that it's not just Wal-Mart. They feel that something that big would forever change the character of this area.

It is a new day for the town. But we do need to make this resolution come alive and that will take the towns people. This is just the beginning.

It is an acknowledgement of the veterans' service. The fact that the towns are going to the full capacity, it's money, but it's also a gesture on their behalf to thank the veterans for the time they put on a uniform.

Just as True Love Waits quickly moved beyond the United States to become an international campaign, we are praying that True Love Waits Takes the Town will spread to help towns and communities find solutions to reclaiming sexual purity among students.

Our prayer has been from day one that other towns can see that we can do this.

People like me and people who live in factory towns just don't believe it.

Sprawl is killing people, some 300,000 premature deaths annually because of the sprawl sedentary lifestyle, and it is killing our natural environment, scenic vistas, biodiversity, rural towns and much more.

Some of the college towns that we operate in in the Lower 48 do this every year.

Some of the towns have been flattened, so there's nothing there,

That brought us in $1,400 last year, which doesn't go very far. It just seemed, as I sat and looked at these other people in these other towns and what they were able to make, that we'll make 10 times that even in our first year-and just think what that'll be able to do.

Market towns in rural areas are abuzz with conversation...the challenge is to create the online (medium) as a vital social space.

Market towns in rural areas are abuzz with conversation... the challenge is to create the online as a vital social space.

Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.