Towns Quotes - Page 23

• Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

  Alison Moyet

  Stars, Sheep, Black

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• [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  School, Knowledge, Learning

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• The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Nature, Science, Two

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• It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.

  Selma Blair

  Revenge, Years, People

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• My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Daughter, Mother, Dog

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

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• Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Lying, Son

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• I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

  Sarah Palin

  Gun, People, Listening

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

  Raymond Loewy

  Science, Civilization, Cities

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• I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Towns and cities, too, which always retain the ghost of their earlier incarnations beneath today's concrete and glass.

  Penelope Lively

  Science, Glasses, Cities

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• Done laid around, done stayed around
  This old town too long
  And it seems like I've got to travel on

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Long, Done

  Song: Gotta Travel On, Album: Self Portrait, 1970

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• Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.

  Toni Morrison

  Women, Moving, Home

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Boredom, Mind

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• If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

  Sally Stanford

  Running, Advice, Looks

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• Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Lost, Gray

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X"; development as "One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man"; and drama as "You will do nothing of the kind," he said.

  Frank O'Connor

  Drama, Men, One Day

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• When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.

  Krysten Ritter

  Cousin, Home, Kids

  "Krysten Ritter: Master Pool Shark". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 13, 2012.

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• An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

  Esther Williams

  Home, Swimming, Hints

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• Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Pet, Wildlife

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• Away, away, from men and towns,
  To the wild wood and the downs, -
  To the silent wilderness,
  Where the soul need not repress
  Its music.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Rivers, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited with a Memoir by Mathilde Blind”, p.84

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• The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided that the only way to save an economy brought to its knees by their collective actions and the banking system they represent was to, well, no, surely not.. hand trillions of taxpayer-borrowed dollars to the Rothschild-controlled banks and insurance companies like CitiGroup, J. P. Morgan, AIG and a long list of others.

  David Icke

  Hands, Long, Way

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• She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Hipster, Adventure

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

  John Green

  Hipster, People, Paper

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.58, A&C Black

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• Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

  John Green

  Hipster, Thinking, Way

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• We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

  John Green

  Hipster, Animal, Paper

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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