Towns Quotes - Page 4

They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.