There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.
It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.
How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?
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.
I was sent the script [of Havenhurst ], and I was out of town at the time, so I did a site meeting with Andrew [Erin]. It was so bizarre. I was staying in a hotel at the time, and the night before the meeting with Andrew, I learned there was a ghost in the hotel.
A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.
Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.
I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.
In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.
Twitter is a global town square.
Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.
The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.
Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no other landmark ever could But Michael Kleen understands that these ghosts are more than just stories. As a folklorist and historian, Kleen shows readers the connection between our past and our present. Haunting Illinois is more than just a ghostly travel guide, it’s an adventure offering new insight on the haunts you know, but also takes you on a trip to the spirits in your own backyard.
I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.
Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.