Towns Quotes - Page 37

• Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.

  Kathy Mattea

  Fun, Writing, Journey

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• Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything?

  Karen Lord

  Land, Names, Weather

  Karen Lord (2010). “Redemption in Indigo: a novel”, p.115, Small Beer Press

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• Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

  Andy Adams

  Men, Average, Cities

  Andy Adams (2013). “Complete Western Collection”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.

  Ilya Ilf

  Stupid, Ohio, Names

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• I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie Hoosiers. That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

  Mary Meeker

  Basketball, Believe, Differences

  "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012..

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• Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

  Bill Bryson

  Journey, Hiking, Benefits

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.167, Random House

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• The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

  Kate Mosse

  Educational, Heart, Age

  "Author, author: Kate Mosse". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's
  sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of
  ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

  Amy Bloom

  Children, Ignorance, Library

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• I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

  Michael Koryta

  Thinking, Ideas, Curiosity

  "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

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• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

  Mary Karr

  Coffee, Flower, Night

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.16, Penguin

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• When he finished up with the Twins and even after he was done, he was always down on the field, so I had a chance to talk to him every time we came into town. Even my first couple of years - when I was still wet behind the ears - he was more than willing to come over and say, 'Hi.' Obviously, he didn't have to introduce himself, but he spent a little time and asked me how I was doing. And it always meant a lot. Anytime you have somebody of that stature on and off the field to take time and be willing to come talk to you, it means a lot.

  Tony Clark

  Couple, Mean, Years

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• When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

  Ron Chernow

  America, People, Wicked

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• He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Black And White, Cities

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Comedy, Drama, Romance, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Liars, Lying, Fighting

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• Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Block, Tired, Sleep

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• Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

  Alexander Pope

  Peace, Farewell, Sleep

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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• Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

  Blaise Pascal

  Reality, Men, Cells

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

  Sheena Easton

  Comeback, Shows, Disappointed

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• Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?

  Sloane Crosley

  Sleep, Imperfect, Refreshing

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.91, Portobello Books

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• I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Home, Cities

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• Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  Langston Hughes

  Country, Book, Color

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• I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

  Juliette Binoche

  Moving, Journey, Hollywood

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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  James E. Burke

  Europe, Years, World

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• The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

  Robert Frost

  Science, Telescopes, Mystery

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

  Blake Edwards

  People, Conscience

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