Quotes About Small-town

It was a brisk, polite town. It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know. Norman Bowker leaned back and considered what he might've said on the subject. He knew shit. It was his specialty. The smell, in particular, but also the numerous varieties of texture and taste. Someday he'd give a lecture on the topic. Put on a suit and tie and stand up in front of the Kiwanis club and tell the fuckers about all the wonderful shit he knew. Pass out samples, maybe.

An' something else you can remember . . ." He leaned in again, his mustache twitching. "My name." Sadie drew back in surprise. "W-what?" His friendly green-eyed gaze held her captive. "Would you consider calling me Thad instead of Sheriff McKane? You and me are the newest ones in town, and I think it'd be nice if we could be friends. Would'ja mind?

I think that's a question I'll be better suited to answer when I'm behind a pulpit. Right now"—he picked up his fork again—"I'm just a small-town lawman enjoying supper with the prettiest girl in town.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.

My favorite - and I've said this before, I know - but my favorite TV show of all time is 'Twin Peaks.'

'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

'Twin Peaks' is my favorite show of all time.

It being the 1970s, and Chet being a high school dropout with a damaged brain, he could not help but perceive something huge in this discovery. Nor could he avoid coming to the conclusion that the mistake he had made on that beautiful moonlit night had been a sort of message from above, a warning that, during the grubby, day-to-day work of small-town pot dealing, he had been failing to attend to larger and more cosmic matters.

It's good to be the top cop in a small town.

In the way of small-town rebels everywhere, they conformed to each other.

And what kind of name for a town is Upper Black Eddy? Pennsylvania scares me sometimes.

The entire town of Monte Rio consisted of a gas station and a tire-flattened raccoon.

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads

Despite the violent turbulence of that year, Anderson, who was born in 1969, imbues his film with a manufactured, blinkered, pastiched nostalgia that the theorist Lauren Berlant defines as "a small-town one that holds close and high a life that never existed, one that provides a screen memory to cover earlier predations of inequality.

I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

This is a very common paradigm held in small towns. If somebody who grew up in your community wins a Nobel Prize, you cut out the newspaper story and put it on the bulletin board; if someone from your town grows up and becomes America's most depraved serial rapist, you cut out the newspaper story and put it on the bulletin board. It's just nice to see someone doing anything.

It's probably the only attraction in Shartlesburg, Pennsylvania, a town whose name Miriam finds so funny she, well, nearly sharts every time she hears it.

If I were any of those things, I think the last place I'd be is in the middle of nowhere. I'm guessing you don't have a huge drug or slave problem in your one-stoplight town." "Two," she snapped. "There are two stoplights." "Oh, well, then, I'll see if I can get the slave trade going in your thriving metropolis.

Small town, things get around

Not that, this." She took her hands off the wheel and stretched out her arms, the car inching closer to oncoming traffic. "This town, these people, the same old shit every week. I'm done with it. All of it.

En Peyton Place había tres fuentes de escándalo: suicidio, asesinato y la deshonra de una muchacha soltera.