Towns Quotes - Page 21

• It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Country

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2013). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

  Peter Forsberg

  Sports, Growing Up, Hockey

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• I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.

  Merlin Olsen

  Football, Hockey, Puck

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• As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Beauty, Real, Views

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• Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.

  Ben Affleck

  Funny, New Year, Gay

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• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

  Charles Darwin

  Flower, Cat, Humble

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• 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.

  Edward Lear

  People, Alcohol, Brandy

  Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen

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• A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Beer, Science

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.68, Library of America

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• Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all.

  Dan Jenkins

  Kids, Golf, Fire

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• There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Gossip, Littles, Little Towns

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• Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better. And Molly, too; those are happy drugs - social drugs. They make you want to be with friends. You're out in the open. You're not in a bathroom.

  Miley Cyrus

  Weed, Marijuana, Drug

  "Miley Cyrus on Why She Loves Weed, Went Wild at the VMAs and Much More" By Josh Eells, www.rollingstone.com. September 27, 2013.

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• We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

  Margot Kidder

  Mom, Goodbye, New York

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

  Beau Bridges

  Travel, Entertainment, Bars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

  Jennie Garth

  Girl, Travel, Moving

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

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Small Town, Gym

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• That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Team, Fans

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• Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

  Ray Liotta

  Money, Men, Games

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• It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

  Cesar Romero

  Big Families, Gone, Elegance

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• An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

  Naomi Judd

  Experts, Slides

  Naomi Judd (2005). “Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.

  Bill Bailey

  Orange, Laughing, Lavender

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• In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

  Horace

  Country, Rome, Sky

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Summer, Beach

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.

  Art Linkletter

  Mother, Country, Dad

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• Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Science, Atmosphere

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.115

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• [Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.

  Francis Collins

  Science, Light, Knowing

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