Quotes of: Town Keyword

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

Andrew Rannells

I keep myself to myself pretty much. I'm not someone who gallivants around town looking for attention.

Antony Starr

London, London, London town, You can toughen up or get thrown around.

Life

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

William Wycherley

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

Bruce Springsteen

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

Hope Davis

How long since you had sex?” Aeron asked his friend. Another moan. “Two—three days.” Paris wiped his mouth with the back of his wrist. Which meant Paris hadn‟t had a female since before their return. But Aeron knew Lucien had flashed the wa...

The Darkest Whisper

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held th...

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd n...

The Big Sleep

Every small town has at least one house the children whisper about; the type of house that has always been abandoned; where the once pristine white paint has faded to a grimy gray; where the windows are boarded, and the lawn never grows; where childr...

The House on Creep Street

Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose. That we are not really in This is a variation on that twee little fable that writers like to pass off on gullible readers, t...

Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books

Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to do that, I believed, was to force a court to interpret it, which...

Leaving Town Alive

[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe. You would think the millions of people who come to Williamsburg every year would ...

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who cre...

Paper Towns

During the night two delegates of the railwaymen were arrested. The strikers immediately demanded their release, and as this was not conceded, they decided not to allow trains leave the town. At the station all the strikers with their wives and famil...

Rosa Luxemburg

...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world ...

Jerry Herron

Calvera: Last month we were in San Juan. Rich town. Sit down. Rich town, much blessed by God. Big church. Not like here - little church, priest comes twice a year. BIG one. You'd think we'd find gold candlesticks. Poor box filled to overflowing. Do y...

The Magnificent Seven

Mark Evans: You gonna tell the marshal what those men did? William Evans: Marshal ain't doing shit! Alice Evans: William... Dan Evans: First thing, Mark, I'm gonna take you boys and we're gonna round up the herd, and then I'm going into town. Mark Ev...

3:10 to Yuma

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

Freya Stark

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

David Morrissey

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Richard Corliss