I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town
Women do fool around. But the reason they don't get caught is that when a woman mess with a man he lives cross town, out of town. Fellas we mess with next door neighbor, co-worker, wondering why she found out.
Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.
Trains are wonderful. . . . To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.
I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.
I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.
My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.
People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.
I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.