Quotes About Town

But Bosch knew nothing premiered in this part of town except thirteen-year-old hookers.

The reader is to be pulled in by the preponderance of the evidence that he or she has been sifting through. As you read, the details fall like snow that suddenly is ash. The character is clearly visible once he is coated, like a status in the town square after such a storm, with a film of detail.

Lots of traffic heading into town. One dirty, smoke-belching van makes me so angry that if I'd been alongside I think I would have had a go at the driver. I'd rather see pollution wardens than parking wardens but I suppose there's no money in pollution prevention.

I'm one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.

As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.

What a unique opportunity to be in town. I love townies. I value it, so to speak.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

interesting? And here's another interesting fact, which I didn't tell you about earlier because I've been saving it: Wyatt Earp was from Pella, the little Iowa town with the windmills. Isn't that great?

in the summer, it's short greens and tall greens and sometimes a smudge of other colors. In winter, it's squinty white,and sometimes deep when it looks flat. In early spring and late fall, the town gets brown and black, like an old photograph.

The cart was grotesque, and automatically attracted attention. A peasant was walking beside it. The cart listed sharply to one side and moved forward at a walking pace. And over all its groaning plunder hung the wet, leaden word "town"; it brought to life in the girl's head a number of images as fleeting as the cold October brilliance which flew along the street and fell upon the water.

spite of the heat, they are always clad completely in black: shoes, stockings, dresses, and, for town shopping, often a black mantilla.

To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I'm a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

Behind him, the town seemed small on its mount in that enduring clasp of the hills.

Make sure your soul is attached at all times - this town will steal it in a second, given the chance.

She hurried to the front door, opened it, and stepped onto the porch. Dark cumulus clouds hovered low over the town, and a warm wind whipped through the trees, carrying stray leaves and dust through the street.

I glanced around, hoping Bobbie would appear to give me some guidance. "She's not here now," Eli said. "I sent her away because I want you to listen to me before we go back to town." He had that power over her? I felt exposed there, but maybe he did have some power over the Fury.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

I mean, really. Who needs Pilates when you've got a town full of demons?

Spirals.... this town is contaminated with spirals.

He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said boo to a loser like him but about whom he could not stop dreaming.

And another thing. There's no black market in this town. Really. You just can't get anything. And you know why?" "Listen—" "Because you've got the bloody Themes, who should be running the stupid black market, going round telling anyone that if they sell so much as a cashew nut off ticket, they'll get their legs broken. That's just not right. It's tyranny.

God damn it, Peg! Now we've got us another vortex into a lost dimension, smack in the middle of town this time!" said the mayor in exasperation. "What are we going to do?" "Beats

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.