Town Quotations | Page 5

I am responsible and I take full accountability, but I will not be deterred by some small special interest group in this town who feel they have some birthright to make all the decisions in this town,

I am very sensitive and do appreciate the contributions of the Town of Hilton Head Island.

Cassy Peerson is a young woman who lives in a car on a beach in an unnamed California town and works as a mermaid at a strip club.

But we need those types of people in town to work in the coffee shops. You start talking to the younger generation, and they're not happy. They can't live here. They're leaving.

But I've also been around this town long enough to know that when nobody is calling you and saying, 'Hang in there,' that isn't a great signal either,

But that's the kind of team we were that year. We were seven games out at the All-Star break. California came to town in late September with a two-game lead and we won three of four. We won every game we had to win. We clinched on a Friday night in extra innings. We felt unbeatable.

Based on the intelligence we received, that's exactly what they do -- they come into town and get people riled up, ... I think that's a very common technique.

Basically the town shined us on until they wanted our support of Measure N.

Because of the complexity and difficulty of snow plowing at the high school, the arrangement worked out with the town is we hire a private contractor to do the snow plowing at the high school. It frees up public works to concentrate on the roads and the other five schools.

Because we're inland, and it takes a while for storms to get here, our average snowfall isn't that impressive. But when it snows, it's usually low density and low water content, making for great skiing. There's been really good energy around town because there's been great skiing.

I'm a little dismayed that an election has come down to how did you vote on one issue. There are so many positive things that we're doing in this town and I think the way we're going to heal the community is to move forward get past the decisiveness we've seen and work together.

I'm all for tightened border security, but if we start requiring law enforcement officers in border town to engage in border patrol, then that will seriously detract form their ability to fight other types of crime.

I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

I have a hard time understanding why the town and the fire department are involved,

I had hoped to be here in the capacity of town attorney, but I am here as a town citizen.

I have an old picture of Sonny Til and the second tenor from the Orioles outside the Earle Theatre. It was such an atmospheric picture, I dragged my girlfriend around town on a bit of a pilgrimage until I finally found it. That was one of my coolest moments so far.

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy.

If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.

I felt like we had the opportunity to do something special. I got the feeling that these guys really wanted me here. I think we've got a tremendous opportunity to win, and win very quickly. I know this town is craving a winner and we're going to get one.

I felt like a prisoner sometimes, being in essentially what is a small town in the middle of farmland,

I feel very fortunate. If I was on the road, I'd get out of town as fast as I could. I feel like I stole somebody's candy.

I feel they're isolated, but also town organizations should develop a policy. Washington Township has a policy -- a code of conduct -- that all coaches and parents are held to. It's a positive step in the right direction.

I fell in love with the library, ... When I knew we would be getting a brand new building, I decided to get my masters degree so I could upgrade my contribution and become a full-time librarian. Geneva is a wonderful town and I wanted to give it my best.

I find out as much from the guy in backstage TV as I do from my C.F.O. Anybody can e-mail me. I do town halls with employees at least once every eight weeks. I'm out there, and it makes a huge difference.

I feel like this is an amazing town with amazing leadership.

I feel like I'm in the twilight zone, ... I love my town and if somebody could tell me this, I'd say, 'You have to be lying. This could not happen in Marana.'

I didn't have a lot to do. Dad felt I was too young to go to college; I didn't have a job, and the nearest town was some 20 miles away. I needed a way of entertaining myself. Writing was what I settled on.

I can tell right now that it looks better and I'm glad it's being done. We need to get this town looking better than it is right now.

get out of town and ride my motorcycle for a few days.

Frankly, it (voting numbers) is disappointing. The town has provided so much to so many people. I don't think it's too much to expect people to come out and vote.

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...

From in here sometimes it sounds like the town is falling apart out there.

For retailers, the bigger your number is, the more attractive your town is.

I don't think we should be locked into the idea that it has to be a school. Unless the district needs it, I think we should look at the other options and not be locked into that idea. A computer facility, a public meeting area right in the middle of town could be great.

I don't think you endorse something by purchasing it if it's the only game in town ... in terms of an effective machine, and the lowest price available,

I expected it to be tough, and this would have been a great atmosphere no matter what. Usually, when Kansas comes to town it adds spice to the game. When we don't play well on the road, our chances aren't good because usually teams are pumped to play us.

I encourage them to interview other financial planners during the process. I give them names of other planners in town and I continue to manage their assets only for the short term until they have found that new relationship with a financial planner. I find it a conflict of interest to represent both.

I enjoy the course and the town and I feel ready to go. Sometimes just driving in the front gate of a place will get you motivated, even if you have not been playing well.

I don't think it's appropriate on a town ballot.

I don't think I've been around or have coached a guy like him. Whatever 'it' is, he's got 'it.' He's a remarkable person both on and off the field, a real tribute to his family and Hopewell High School and the town of Aliquippa.

For us, what it has created is a buzz around town. I think it's a part of having 4,000 people here. It's a word around town that I think people are excited about. I think we've got people in here for the first time.

I got drunk that night in Honolulu, and we had some celebration. I went to the nearest joint I could find. Soldiers and sailors paid for nothing. Civilians paid for everything, picked up all our tabs. They loved us. The town was ours.

I get recognised in town a bit; I wouldn't say it's hindering my life in any way.

If the town likes it, we're happy with keeping it there.

If the town continues to support us and asks us to stay, I'm sure we will continue to do both.

If St. Louis is 1A (as a sports town in Missouri), Springfield is 1B.

He was an influence. I think there would be a lot of people in this town at that time and still to this day, who would say that if Earl had been the coach, we never would have had a championship team.

I always remember responding very emotionally to film. I had a lot of lonely time on my hands because I wasn't really the best-looking kid in my town and I sort of pined after girls. I had to sort of immerse myself in the arts because girls weren't particularly interested in me.

He worked hard to support the United Democratic Front when it was formed to step into the gap left by the long silencing of the ANC and attended its launch in Cape Town and said it caught the ruling National Party off-guard.

He's coming to terms with being the main figure in the big times. And of course it takes time to learn coming from a quiet town to being one of the biggest ski stars in the world.

He hadn't had any hits and I hadn't won many games. I was really happy when he got to be a big star because then I'd get on the bus and he'd go to a town and we'd always play the best golf course in the morning and he'd do the show at night.

He is amazing. You read so much stuff about the other guy across town from him (Southern California's Reggie Bush) that he almost becomes kind of a forgotten back,

He grew up in a town that was probably 30 percent Jewish, ... He came back to his hometown after the war and found that his schoolmates and his friends were no more.

He loved his grandchildren. He practically raised my daughter. He would take her to school and pick her up, and they would walk through town together. He was so compassionate, and he had the patience of a saint.

He looked like a real good athlete. We're happy he's coming our way and not slipping out of town somewhere.

He never saw me play ball in high school. You had to rely on relationships or a friend who knew of a good player in this town or that town.

He came on Saturday. Saturday evening there was the Town Ball. Frau Schwarz gave me a box, so I absolutely had to go after I had accepted. Well, I spent a few wonderfully delightful hours with him until 12 o'clock and then with his permission I spent two hours at the ball.

He came into town just to get those 6-inch custard pies,

Whatever is coming from over there and crosses this street is coming to my town and I've seen them in my neighborhood.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with a private company? Town pickup?

There is no consistency at all from town to town.

The people here in town do a great job with the tournament, everybody around it, the workers, the ushers. They've done it well enough that people keep asking them to do it again.

The people there were just awesome. It's like a 5,000-person town and we had 2,500 people come out for the game. They had scarves in the windows saying Welcome Canada. Kids would run up to us on the street with pieces of paper to sign for autographs.

We talked all spring about this, ... We talked about it at town hall meetings, at concerts, everywhere. Seventh- through 12th-graders should take some responsibility. The students need to tell their parents.

We try to include school children, especially seventh graders who are taking Texas History, in our activities. We know how important it is for them to learn the history of the town in which they live.

We've been trying all over town to partner with a developer.

We took it upon ourselves (to investigate) because it is a town that seems to be arbitrarily denying people their rights.

What I look at is, the way the town makes revenue in the guise of protecting environment, ... It sounds like a money-making machine for them ... They're thinking green, as in money.

We surprised a lot of people. It's starting to sink in with the girls and the community. The town is abuzz.

We can build up to about a hundred units right now with the water that's available on the land right now. But to go past that we're going to have to build a new water pipe, a water main to the small town of Dolton. That's where the water is and that's about ten miles south of where we're going to be,

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

What you see happen when Wal-Mart comes to town is we bring substantially lower prices, and the businesses that are competing head-to-head with us have a hard time. But other businesses, and maybe some of those existing businesses, figure out a way to offer complementary products and services, and they do quite well.

What you're doing here is wrong. I bought a house in a country, in county and in a town that believes in freedom.

What works for one town may not work for another town. We want to give everybody in Plymouth County the opportunity to recycle.

What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great.

What we have been doing is turning around and donating them (donations) to the various donation sites set up around town for other hurricane evacuees. From what I understand, even more people are showing up here from that area.

Having seen what happened with Katrina last year and how much devastation that caused, we have a similar situation here in having widespread type of damage. This town meeting is to really help the public better understand their chances of seeing an earthquake occur and what could happen if it did occur.

Have a night on the town right here in Sterling. You don't have to go all the way to the Front Range. We can bring it right to you.

Having our lawyers back in town working will jumpstart the dry cleaners, the drug stores, the gas stations. They need us as customers.

Having more people in town to see us is huge. Having games on TV locally is real critical to our entire success.

Here we're trying to preserve and nurture our own historic New England downtown, and instead we're going to have a Disney version of a town square just a stone's throw away from the real one. We should be developing what we already have.

Here's the thing I realized before we got into this. This isn't going to be resolved at a single town council meeting. We'll continue to do what we've been doing all over the county, and I'd be happy to hear from any other employers who would like to step up alongside us.

His quick thinking and knowledge of the system onboard Ericsson enabled him to lock the keel in the middle and keep sailing the boat to Cape Town ... the safety of the crew and boat were in his hands and he did us proud.

Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress' lips, and murders. Actors come from all over the world to find their sliver of fame on the street of L.A. Many stars rise, but many more fall.

He's going to face that conflict inevitably. The town is involved in ongoing litigation in which his brother had been a leading attorney. It's not about whether you're for or against Blue Back Square. It's about protecting the town's legal interest.

He's been in town on his days off and he's been fabulous. He's got a great spirit and gets us revved up to do the work,

He's done so much for the town of Clinton. Nobody will be able to replace the guy. It's not the same going into the gym and knowing he's not walking through the door.

The pageant was mobbed. And it's a good thing there were tourists because everyone in town was in it.

We look at different facets, different relationships, the same relationship at different points in time. We look sometimes at the whole town and sometimes at individual relationships, and by the time we're done you have a sense of having met the people of this town.

We lost that one in Cape Town and that's in the back of everyone's mind, and being at home we want to do well,

Huntington is a great town with much to offer the manufacturing industry. There are many people with great manufacturing skill sets in this region and we have utilized the same manufacturing techniques and supply infrastructure from the old business to augment our knowledge of science to create new technologies.

Human space flight is not the only game in town at NASA.

I agree with growth, but it was done too fast, and I don't think the town has the finances to support it.

I agreed to the contract with the strong advice not to sign it simply for the reason that I want to play in this town and I love being a Red Sox. I wouldn't have signed this deal in any other place.

I admit I did it wrong. I was new in town and I really didn't detail it enough.

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

He'd be playing that old piano at the town hall waiting for the meetings to start.

Haskell told you what he feels he can say in answering your questions, which is some things not done properly when the school was built. But until town counsel tells us otherwise I can't go into specifics.