Quotes of: Home-town Keyword

Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk.

Count on Me

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

Ghost Town

His voice as smooth as silk, Grant started into his standard crowd-pleaser: Sinatra’s 'My Kind of Town.

Bad Behavior

On the porch were the still-smoking remains of long-stemmed roses, evidence that someone angry and passive-aggressive didn't know Peter was out of town.

Byuck

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Jackson

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.

Leon Krier

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Angle of Repose

See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

Heir of Novron

You will have to grow up to her quickly, I thought, surprising myself, or you will lose her.

Hill Towns

Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.

Red River

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?

Moonlight Mile

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

My Antonia

Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.

The Plague

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Paper Towns

It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)

Paper Towns

Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time

Paper Towns

Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.

Paper Towns

I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)

Paper Towns

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

Paper Towns