Towns Quotations | Page 6

Is it okay to go the roof of the tallest building in your town and jerk off into the street?

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.

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.

If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

I would love for someone to offer me a serious part in something. I don't know if I could even pull it off, but I would like to be the cowboy that rides off and someone shoots him off the horse in the middle of town. Just a serious role. It wouldn't have to be a big one.

The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

history records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town ...

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

I wanna be the ambassador to Chimichanga Flavor Town.

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school.

I commend them for the job they do and for providing a service for events. My job is to look after the towns assets. Thats where Im coming from.

College towns can be great places to live because they are family-friendly, lively communities with an abundance of activities,

College towns aren't the most prosperous because their knowledge isn't deployed in the most economically productive occupations.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

You know that thing when you break up with someone and you’re walking around the town where you both live and you’re just really hoping to see them? You know that you’re not supposed to see them, but there’s nothing you want more.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

That's how I believed relationships worked: You go into town, pick up the girl you want, then ride off into the mountains and the townsfolk can't get them back.

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

It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

A paper town for a paper girl.

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.

At least I carpe'd that one diem.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

[On Hollywood:] This is no town for a come back, people are too unsure of themselves.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?" ~pg 11

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

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.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed.

I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.

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

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.

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

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

You swore an oath, just like the rest of us. I won’t have you preying on innocents in my town. (Talon) Ooo. How cliché, little partner. Wanna tell me to be out by sunup, or better yet, this town ain’t big enough for the two of us? (Zarek)

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.