Towns Quotes - Page 17

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience.

Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.

[On Hollywood:] This is no town for a come back, people are too unsure of themselves.

St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

There are definitely many adventures on the road with Jessica 6. It sometimes feels like we're in a movie. I was recently kidnapped by 2 taxi drivers in Moscow. They drove me over 2 hours out of town till I started to cry then they drove me 3 more hours finally to my hotel!

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is present.

We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

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.

Every town has an Elm Street.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.