Towns Quotes - Page 30

• Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.

  Toni Morrison

  Women, Moving, Home

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Boredom, Mind

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• If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

  Sally Stanford

  Running, Advice, Looks

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• Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Lost, Gray

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X"; development as "One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man"; and drama as "You will do nothing of the kind," he said.

  Frank O'Connor

  Drama, Men, One Day

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• When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.

  Krysten Ritter

  Cousin, Home, Kids

  "Krysten Ritter: Master Pool Shark". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 13, 2012.

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• When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

  Herman Melville

  Life, Country, Thinking

  1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

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• An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

  Esther Williams

  Home, Swimming, Hints

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• Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Pet, Wildlife

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• Away, away, from men and towns,
  To the wild wood and the downs, -
  To the silent wilderness,
  Where the soul need not repress
  Its music.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Rivers, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited with a Memoir by Mathilde Blind”, p.84

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• The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided that the only way to save an economy brought to its knees by their collective actions and the banking system they represent was to, well, no, surely not.. hand trillions of taxpayer-borrowed dollars to the Rothschild-controlled banks and insurance companies like CitiGroup, J. P. Morgan, AIG and a long list of others.

  David Icke

  Hands, Long, Way

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• She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Hipster, Adventure

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

  John Green

  Hipster, People, Paper

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.58, A&C Black

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• Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

  John Green

  Hipster, Thinking, Way

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• We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

  John Green

  Hipster, Animal, Paper

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

  John Green

  Hipster, Tonight, Paper

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.30, A&C Black

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• I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

  January Jones

  Sports, Teacher, Dad

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• Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

  Norman Mailer

  Blood, Cities, Chicago

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.88, Random House

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• So get up, get, get get down 911 is a joke in yo town

  Flavor Flav

  Hip Hop, Get Up, Jokes

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• To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Children, Two

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Righteous Man, Swamps

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

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• n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

  Barack Obama

  Stupid, Kansas, People

  "Obama Gaffe: "10,000" Died In Kan. Tornado". www.cbsnews.com. May 9, 2007.

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• In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact should compel everyone to face a basic moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious choice and then deliberate policy that humanity will survive.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiring, Country, Past

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood”, Pauline Books & Media

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