Downtown Quotes - Page 7

• It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.

  Tanya Huff

  Forever, Vancouver, World

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• For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Regret, Father

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• Sam screamed the fun scream, and there it was. Downtown lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. and in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Fun, Light, Laughing

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

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• That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver’s head. ‘Hey, bus driver,’ I said. ‘Can I smoke?’ ‘May I,’ said the bus driver. ‘I love you,’ I said.

  Michael Chabon

  Love You, Clouds, Sitting

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Caring, Thinking, Tunnels

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Art, Feet

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

  Allen Ginsberg

  Reading, Eye, Winter

  Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish, Part I”

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• If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.

  Richard Kadrey

  Real, Differences, Enemy

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• I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wings, Hot, Pixies

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

  Stephen King

  Air, Smell, Church

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What are they going to do with it?" "I don't know. I was hoping their overcompensating sign would say, but it just says 'private property' and shouts lots of threats in capital letters, all of which I plan to completely ignore later.

  Darynda Jones

  Old Things, Letters, Asylums

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• A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. ... Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; just more tickets on the hell-bound train.

  Gabor Mate

  Pain, Long, Track

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• I'm pretty darn happy. I really wanted to go to San Diego and play for those offensive masterminds. I'm looking forward to a 15-year career, a couple of trips to the Super Bowl and a parade through downtown San Diego.

  Ryan Leaf

  Couple, Years, Play

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• Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Numbers, People

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.201, Vintage

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• I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Dwelling, Cities, Use

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.164, Vintage

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• There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

  Jan Morris

  Vegas, Cities, Mountain

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown, and it stopped at 14th Street. At the station, the doors opened, and the conductor announced that there was a bomb on board and we should evacuate immediately. Nobody moved. We just looked at each other, 'Do you see a bomb?' 'I don't see a bomb.' 'There's no bomb.' 'I've only got two stops - let's go for it.

  Lewis Black

  New York, Doors, Years

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• First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

  Charles Bukowski

  Library, Rooms, Firsts

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• So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn’t matter why or when or how.

  John Fante

  Men, Earthquakes, What If

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.530, Canongate Books

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• Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, Xenophobia, Hate

  "Sherman Alexie: Up All Night". "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 4, 2002.

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• I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.

  Mr. T

  Couple, Winning, Car

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• I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Jobs, Mean

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview With Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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