I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.
Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
When asses are needed. - You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.
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 studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.
Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.
There are other places at which. . . the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.
At least I carpe'd that one diem.
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
L. A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.
I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.
I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.
Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.
I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts. "