Towns Quotations | Page 2

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.

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

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.

If you look at America, one of the great strengths of America is its university towns and the way a lot of their businesses and a lot of their innovation and enormous economic growth have come from reducing that gap, getting those universities directly involved in start-up businesses, green field businesses, new development businesses.

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.

Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

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.

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

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

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

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.

Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

I put music on and I drive around town.

To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

I lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

Standup keeps me grounded and keeps me in touch. I get to go from small towns to big cities, across Canada and the U.S., and you're out there and talking to people. You get a sense of what they respond to.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

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.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

The potential consolidation between the two towns in Orleans County may be the state's first step back to the future. This is the only way we can beat the economic death spiral gripping us all.

We are prime for growth. We are fortunate to have REDCO (Regional Economic Development Corporation) and area towns with leadership that is dedicated to bringing new business into the area and retaining existing businesses.

Where the Mike's concept started was in smaller towns and has continued to develop in smaller towns, and we have done well with that.

I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.

When we found out the fireworks might not happen, we started raising money, ... Family Day is a great time for Sterling and surrounding towns and the fireworks top it off.

When I was a kid, my family moved around a lot, and I lived and grew up in a lot of wild places. I lived in boom towns and oil fields and the like.

I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

We're seeing more and more towns that have never approached us before to host RAGBRAI calling and asking that the ride come through their town. Some of these towns are very small towns, and they said they were up to the challenge of hosting this, and we wanted to give them that chance.

New Orleans in an amazing town.