Towns Quotes - Page 27

• I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.

  Claire Trevor

  Hollywood, Changed, Whole

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

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• A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

  Alan Autry

  Cities, Valleys, Matter

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• I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.

  Joanne Woodward

  Summer, Thinking, Mind

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• I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical.

  Landon Liboiron

  Small Town, Approach

  "Hot Topic: Landon Liboiron" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. April 19, 2013.

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• And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

  K. Sello Duiker

  Capes, Culture, Used

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• None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

  Edmund Crispin

  Character, Cities, Oxford

  Edmund Crispin (2014). “The Moving Toyshop”, p.6, A&C Black

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• I opened a book and in I strode.
  Now nobody can find me.
  I've left my chair, my house, my road,
  My town and my world behind me.
  I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
  I've swallowed the magic potion.
  I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
  And dived in a bottomless ocean.
  I opened a book and made some friends.
  I shared their tears and laughter
  And followed their road with its bumps and bends
  To the happily ever after.
  I finished my book and out I came.
  The cloak can no longer hide me.
  My chair and my house are just the same,
  But I have a book inside me.

  Julia Donaldson

  Kings, Laughter, Ocean

  Julia Donaldson (2015). “Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Historical, Events, Borders

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• Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.

  Eleanor Lerman

  Baby, Growing Up, Memories

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• We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Team, Waiting, Done

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• Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to be in the streets, at town hall meetings and on the phones, demanding justice for the 11 million aspiring Americans in our country.

  Eliseo Medina

  Country, Phones, Justice

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• Just like dust, we settle in this town.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Dust, Settling

  Song: Merry Go 'Round, Album: Same Trailer Different Park, 2013

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• I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up.

  Larry Klayman

  Hands, President, Demand

  "Rallier tells Obama to 'put the Quran down'". Article by Ashley Killough, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 13, 2013.

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• In every nowhere town
  There are somewhere dreams.

  Ron Sexsmith

  Dream, Existential

  "Song: 'Love Shines'". 2011.

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• The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a fully realised fantasy world. They can explore, visit various towns and places, talk to people, customise their character, collect various items, and defeat monsters. The story is not the focus of the experience and is only there to make the atmosphere of the fantasy world more interesting and engaging during the course of the game.

  Yuji Horii

  Character, Player, Games

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• That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

  Andrew Flintoff

  Home, Mean, Sheep

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

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• My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

  Mickey Gilley

  Beach, Years, Tourism

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• Last dance with Mary Jane
  One more time to kill the pain
  I feel summer creepin' in and I'm
  Tired of this town again

  Tom Petty

  Summer, Pain, Tired

  Song: Mary Jane's Last Dance

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• It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Nice, Black

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cities, Swamps, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

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• That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Horse, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

  Beverley Baxter

  Government, Married, Mayors

  In Sir Henry Channon Chips: the Diaries (1967) 12 June 1940

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• When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

  Edward Abbey

  Trouble, Building, Knows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

  Edward Abbey

  Church, Bars, Four

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

  T. S. Eliot

  Children, Wall, Hate

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