Towns Quotes - Page 24

I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.

I see the rodeo's in town again.

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

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.

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.

My town's quite small and you kinda recognize everyone when you see them, so I definitely get funny looks from people.

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.

If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.

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.

I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately.

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.

I naturally have some curves, like most women, just unfortunately not like most women in Hollywood. I'm only considered curvy in Hollywood. It's a weird town.

Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.