quotes about Towns
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
-- Aaron Paul -
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.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.
-- Abbi Glines -
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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!
-- Al Yankovic -
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
-- Alan Jackson -
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
-- Alan Rickman -
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
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A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
-- Alison Gopnik -
There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.
-- Andie MacDowell -
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Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.
-- Andrew RannellsSource : "Andrew Rannells ‘Book of Mormon’ Star Talks Life, White Strips & Mucinex". Interview with Sandi Durell, theaterpizzazz.com. July 17, 2013.
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Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
-- Andy Rooney -
It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
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I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.
-- Aravind Adiga -
Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
-- Arnold Rothstein -
Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
-- Art Linkletter -
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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.
-- Arthur Erickson -
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.
-- Bea Arthur -
As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
-- Beau BridgesSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.
-- Ben VereenSource : "Ben Vereen Reflects on His Career Before Playing the Town Hall" by James Sims, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.
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New Orleans in an amazing town.
-- Benjamin WalkerSource : "Benjamin Walker Talks Research, Balancing History with the Supernatural, Playing Different Ages and More on the Set of ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER". Interview, collider.com. June 13, 2012.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
-- Bess Streeter AldrichSource : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1988). “A White Bird Flying”, p.146, U of Nebraska Press
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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
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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.
-- Betty BuckleySource : Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.
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Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.
-- Beverley BaxterSource : In Sir Henry Channon Chips: the Diaries (1967) 12 June 1940
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Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
-- Bill Bryson -
Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.
-- Bill Kurtis -
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.
-- Bill Kurtis -
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I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
-- Bill PullmanSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1996.
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Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
-- Bill Pullman -
I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.
-- Billy Childish -
There's so few people in this town with a conscience.
-- Blake Edwards -
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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.
-- Blythe Danner -
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.
-- Bob Barr -
Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.
-- Bob Cousy -
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.
-- Bobby Knight -
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There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.
-- Brandon Routh -
If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.
-- Brian Fallon -
Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?
-- Brian Van Holt -
Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.
-- Brigid Lowry -
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There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.
-- Bubba Sparxxx -
Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.
-- Buddy Guy -
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Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.
-- Byron Dorgan -
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
-- Calamity JaneSource : Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
-- Camille Claudel -
There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.
-- Carl Douglas -
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
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.
-- Carter Burwell -
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.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
-- Cesar Romero -
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It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
-- Cesar Romero -
Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.
-- Charles Kingsley -
I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.
-- Charlie Brooker -
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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
-- Chris Isaak -
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.
-- Christopher IsherwoodSource : Christopher Isherwood (1949). “The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-diary”
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I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.
-- Claire TrevorSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.
-- Colleen Hoover -
It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.
-- Colleen Hoover -
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I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
-- Cornelia Funke -
A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
-- Cotton Mather -
Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)
-- D. J. MacHale -
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The Vikings need to go down there and hit that town like Katrina.
-- Dan HamptonSource : "Gay Group Calls for Football Hall of Famer to Apologize Over 'Brokeback' Comment". www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2010.
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The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.
-- Daniel Tosh -
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.
-- Danny ElfmanSource : Song: This Is Halloween, 1993
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I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
-- Daryl HallSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!
-- Dave Haywood -
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.
-- David AndersSource : Source: collider.com
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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
-- David ArquetteSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!
-- David Berg -
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Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
-- David Byrne -
People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
-- David McCullough -
I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?
-- David Nail -
The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.
-- David Shenk -
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I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
-- Davy Jones -
I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.
-- Debra GranikSource : "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.
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For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.
-- Delta Burke -
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.
-- Diane PaulusSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.
-- Dick CostoloSource : "Twitter CEO Hopes To Attract Users By Clearing The Clutter". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, nhpr.org. May 2, 2014.
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The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.
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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.
-- Dino De LaurentiisSource : "How Dino De Laurentiis Defied Moviemaking Convention" by Kirk Honeycutt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 12, 2010.
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But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
-- Don Roff -
Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.
-- Doris "Granny D" HaddockSource : Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke (2001). “Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year”, p.139, Villard
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No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
-- Dorothy Canfield FisherSource : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1971). “Four-square”, Ayer Company Pub
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I love playing in the UK because there are some topics that you just can't talk about in the States without getting run out of town. So let me just say this: Louis C. K.'s new show sucks.
-- Doug Stanhope -