Towns Quotes - Page 23

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!

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

A town in Upstate New York is being accused of being biased 'cause they sent out absentee ballots that say 'Barack Osama.' Today they apologized and printed new ballots that say 'Barack Hussein Osama.'

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

I am a small-town girl.

It`s hard to beat something with nothing. Republicans across the country are feeling the burn from an energized and angry segment of the electorate which is descending on GOP town halls and these folks want answers.

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

I put music on and I drive around town.

Stand-up for me is usually a weekend thing. I go out of town and just do it.

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

When I look back, I'm glad I grew up in a small town. There, it's just you, your family and whatever you make of it.

In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine.

There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.

I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months’.

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.

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

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.

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?