Towns Quotes - Page 21

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

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 from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

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