Towns Quotes - Page 28

• As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

  Beau Bridges

  Travel, Entertainment, Bars

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

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• I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

  Jennie Garth

  Girl, Travel, Moving

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• Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Small Town, Gym

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• That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Team, Fans

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• Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

  Ray Liotta

  Money, Men, Games

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• It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

  Cesar Romero

  Big Families, Gone, Elegance

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• An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

  Naomi Judd

  Experts, Slides

  Naomi Judd (2005). “Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.

  Bill Bailey

  Orange, Laughing, Lavender

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• In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

  Horace

  Country, Rome, Sky

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Summer, Beach

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.

  Art Linkletter

  Mother, Country, Dad

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• Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Science, Atmosphere

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.115

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• [Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.

  Francis Collins

  Science, Light, Knowing

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• From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, School, Dedication

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.563, Best Books on

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• I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

  Philip Larkin

  Fear, Long, Mad

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Poesía reunida”, p.279, LUMEN

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• There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Sovereign

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

  Herbie Mann

  Daughter, Mother, Moving

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• There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); this is a very good party town, a good drinking place. I definitely would like to come back and check it out further. Do some more research, as I call it.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Party, Drinking

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• That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Ak 47, Nuts

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• Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on faith and redirect their hearts to charity. Muslims worldwide have stretched out a hand of mercy to those in need. Charity tables at which the poor can break their fast line the streets of cities and towns. And gifts of food and clothing and money are distributed to ensure that all share in God's abundance. Muslims often invite members of other families to their evening iftar meals, demonstrating a spirit of tolerance.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  Thomas More

  Moon, Islands, Different

  Thomas More, Sir Saint (2008). “Utopia: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.152, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Docks

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, People

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• My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried.

  Gordon Bennett

  Military, Gun, Men

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• To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

  Juan Cole

  Military, Iraq, Government

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