Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnon Goldfinger

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

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.

Bette Midler

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Ben Bernanke

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Aesop

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

Estelle Parsons

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Shaukat Aziz

Some of the towns have been flattened, so there's nothing there,

Dylan McDermott

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

Dolly Parton

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Andy Rooney

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

Anne Boleyn

In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'

Dan Hampton

The Vikings need to go down there and hit that town like Katrina.

Anna Nicole Smith

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Anthony Bourdain

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Dustin Lynch

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

Francis Parkman

The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.

Cornelia Funke

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

David Lynch

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Julia Roberts

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Kevin Pollak

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

James Dickey

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

Henry David Thoreau

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

Henry David Thoreau

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Ernest Poole

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

Henry Mayhew

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures