Towns Quotes - Page 3

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.

I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.

You know that thing when you break up with someone and you’re walking around the town where you both live and you’re just really hoping to see them? You know that you’re not supposed to see them, but there’s nothing you want more.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

A paper town for a paper girl.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.