Towns Quotes - Page 10

• I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Sexy, Thinking, Style

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

  Ben Vereen

  Moving, Used, Form

  "Ben Vereen Reflects on His Career Before Playing the Town Hall" by James Sims, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.

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• I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

  Robert Wagner

  Long, Location, Building

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• Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Business, Thinking

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• Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.

  Paul Weller

  Country, Song, Kids

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• While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

  Allen West

  Country, Memorial Day, Thinking

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• I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

  Ron White

  Rumor, Clubs, Comedy

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• They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Long, Different, Woods

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Men, Role Models

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• I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Football, Team, Sacrifice

  "Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades". www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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• A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

  William Wycherley

  Country, Night, House

  'The Country Wife' (1672-3) act 1, sc. 1

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• A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Country, People, Population

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

  Henny Youngman

  New York, Dad, Drinking

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• Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.

  Clara Zetkin

  Children, Home, Wife

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• Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, People, Deserve Better

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

  Helen Fisher

  Mother, Community, Arms

  "Motherhood 2.0: It takes an (online) village" by Adrienne Mand Lewin, www.today.com. October 12, 2009.

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• I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Thinking, Perspective, Directors

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• Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

  Dorothy Allison

  Grief, Heart, Drunk

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• what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.

  Bill McKibben

  Zoos, Animal, Exotic

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.124, Random House

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• I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Giving, Defense

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.35, Schocken

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• When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, People, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.

  Michael Chabon

  Morning, Home, Destiny

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, Reality, Bereavement

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,' they said. 'I'm touring college towns with my garage band.' We were dumbfounded. It was like they were from another planet. Where had they found the derring-do? What would they do about car payments? We got together for going away drinks on their final day and tried to hide our envy while reminding ourselves that we still had the freedom and luxury to shop indiscriminately.

  Joshua Ferris

  Believe, College, Colorado River

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• That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

  Thornton Wilder

  Time, Moving, Passion

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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