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.

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

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

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

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.