Quotes About Town

Everything looked sharp and clear, and the town smelt of the early morning.

Nicholas Adams drove on through the town along the empty, brick-paved street ... on under the heavy trees of the small town that are a part of your heart if it is your town and you have walked under them, but that are only too heavy, that shut out the sun and that dampen the houses for a stranger.

We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

Do you know what it means to work from seven at night till three in the morning as a reporter on a morning newspaper in a town of twenty thousand people for ten years? No. You don't. You can't. No one could who hadn't been through the mill. But what it did to me it made me happy yes, happy! to get out here T.B. and all, notwithstanding.

In 1765, four years before Napoleon's birth, the Scottish lawyer and man of letters James Boswell visited the island and was enchanted with what he found. 'Ajaccio is the prettiest town in Corsica,' he later wrote. 'It

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

connect two clauses, the second of which refers to something that results from the first: there was a flash flood and by the next morning the town was under water. - connecting two identical comparatives, to emphasize a progressive change: getting better and better. - connecting two identical words, implying great duration or great extent: I cried and cried. - used to connect two identical

Since you put it that way, then—guess who's coming to town?" "Who? Who?" Little Lloyd was interested, even if no one else was. "None other than your friend and mine, Sonny Sutton.

It astonished him how many of the players in the case still lived in the town, or had connections with the place. It was as if they'd had no ambition, or lacked the confidence to uproot themselves and try life elsewhere.

At nine o'clock he went into an estate agent's office and asked if they had a map of the town. He was afraid they would not give him one unless they thought he was a serious purchaser, so he came out with an armful of property details too

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.

Wherever I've been, I've tried to soak up the essence of the club, the town, and to transmit that to the players.

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.

To provide affordability, we have made a few acqui-hires such as a data analytics firm to help us deliver the cheapest room prices in every town.

I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.

I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.

I've loved to be a part of anything, having an opportunity to entertain, to be a part of a film, or just continue to do what I'm doing, I'm so happy, so just making town after town, doing my thing, but if I have that opportunity to star in a film or be an extra, I don't care; its all a learning experience for me.

Un hiver, je rendis visite, à pied bien entendu, à mon frère qui séjournait alors dans une petite bourgade campagnarde où il était chargé de décorer à fresque une salle de bal. Malgré la saison froide, j'avais choisi une tenue toute mince et légère; m'encombrer peureusement d'étoffes lourdes et épaisses m'eût paru une gêne désagréable, une peine superflue.

The abbey had dominated Whitby for centuries and waves of invisible force flowed down from it. The ruin was a guardian, watching and waiting, caring for the little town that huddled beneath the cliff. It was a worshipful thing.

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

operation was for me. I had been in town less than a half-hour. The other five had probably been here all their lives. Any problem with any of them and an embarrassed sergeant would have shuffled in. He would be apologetic. He would mumble to them.

Although he had read that Pittsburgh was becoming an in-demand moviemaking town.

A whole bunch of things happened. Moynahan and the Cadillac driver spun around and around, trying to see it all. Trying to stay eyes-on. First the right-hand helicopter pounced ahead on a wide track to the east, sliding in again behind the town and heading due south, full speed, which was pretty damn fast.