Towns Quotes - Page 19

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs.

When I lived in Jamaican I lived in Kingston, in Spanish Town, and when I go there the only place I want to go is Kingston because that's where the culture is the richest.

I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts."

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

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.

Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.

What a unique opportunity to be in town. I love townies. I value it, so to speak.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.

I was sent the script [of Havenhurst ], and I was out of town at the time, so I did a site meeting with Andrew [Erin]. It was so bizarre. I was staying in a hotel at the time, and the night before the meeting with Andrew, I learned there was a ghost in the hotel.

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.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.

Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.

But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?