Town Quotes

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.

They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.

So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.

We were fortunate to be there a day or two before "the big bang" and then we got the heck out of town.

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

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

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

Having Wayne in town will be exciting enough.