Downtown Quotes

• When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

  Tony Hatch

  Lonely, Being Alone, Solitude

  Tony Hatch (1976). “So you want to be in the music business”

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• Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Light, Wonder, Infinite

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

  Andy Warhol

  People, Uptown, Done

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• I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

  Paul Simon

  Mother, Children, Eggs

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• People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

  Jack White

  People, Amenities

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• It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

  Ed McMahon

  Community, Kind, Parking

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• I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

  Thomas Reid

  Renaissance, Wanted

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• And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
  Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
  So maybe I'll see you there
  We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go
  Downtown, things'll be great when you're
  Downtown, don't wait a minute more
  Downtown, everything's waiting for you

  Petula Clark

  Song, Hands, Waiting

  "Song: "Downtown" ("Downtown")". 1965.

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• When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.

  Tony Hatch

  Worry, Silence, Noise

  "Song: "Downtown" ("Downtown")". 1965.

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• Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Travel, Fall, Home

  Song: A Thousand Miles, Album: Be Not Nobody

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• I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

  James Van Der Beek

  New York, Past, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Careers, People, Littles

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• I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Wine, Night, Two

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• I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty that I recognize as a part of me, a part of all of us that celebrates life. It's my great pleasure to share with you that energy which inspires me; this great visual beauty of our world.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Beautiful, Cities, Our World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

  Althea Gibson

  Queens, Hands, Long

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• I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Opportunity, Spend Time, Relish

  "Did Zooey Deschanel Diss Downtown LA?" by Eliza Fisher, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

  Alan Autry

  Order, Goal, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.

  Jane Jacobs

  People, Rely

  "Carson CoxSam YorkAustin Brown - 'Fire Dance'" by Kevin Lozano, pitchfork.com. November 18, 2016.

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• To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

  Susan Orlean

  San Francisco, Office, Navy

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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• There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

  Bobby Heenan

  Two, Stories, Skyscraper

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• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Morning, Cost, Littles

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• I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

  Guy Lafleur

  Night, Important, My Family

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• Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Romantic, Husband, Nice

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Night, Eight, Four

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