Towns Quotes - Page 34

• Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."

  Charles Lamb

  Business, Women, Two

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John G. Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Math, Long

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• The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on.

  William Z. Foster

  Country, Lakes, Government

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• I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  Play, Pieces, Nine

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• Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

  Angie Martinez

  Party, Weekend, People

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• Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mom, Country, Laughter

  Shel Silverstein, “Ticklish Tom”

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• We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Men

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• A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

  Ashley Judd

  Yoga, Thinking, Years

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• Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

  Santiago Durango

  College, Students, Poor

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• I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'

  Robert Sylvester

  Smoking, Coughing, Chains

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• How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town? It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliché - but why worry about things you have no control over? What I can do is try to get this club to continue to play well. That's all I can do.

  Mike Quade

  Old Things, Play, Worry

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• No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  House, Tree, Gutters

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.4

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Player, Air

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Home, Journey

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.429

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• Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

  Thomas Seward

  Speech, Bread, Seven

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• Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

  Bill Pullman

  Hypocrisy, Idyllic, Easy

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• You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back.

  Hal Ketchum

  People, World, Quiet

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• The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Son, Player

  "Memoirs of General William T. Sherman".

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• My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

  Jason Biggs

  Girl, Mean, People

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• Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere. Nonpolluting hydrogen powers all vehicles. Sunlight and wind generate the hydrogen. Note the earth-covered bridges, the continuous window bands, the wind machines across the farmlands. In this new America, everything is reused, recycled, conserved.

  Malcolm Wells

  Views, Wind, Bridges

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• Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

  John Evelyn

  Cheating, Garden, Quality

  E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 96 (10 May 1654)

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• My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

  Susan Hayward

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Games

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

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• The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

  Peter Bart

  Creativity, Creative, Hollywood

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• The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Doe, Culture

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.67, 谷月社

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• Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Mad, Degrees

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Works ...”, p.130

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