Top 48 Locals Only Quotes
#1. Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [ ... ] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.
Karl Pilkington
#2. Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.
Gus Van Sant
#3. Locals. They'll eventually get out. They're annoyed. Like when Americans go to the lake. And it's closed. 'Cause some kid pooped in the water.
Elle Lothlorien
#4. I can't speak for all Hawaiians, but the reality is that we depend on tourism. Locals might not want to go to the spots like Waikiki, but we do want tourists to experience more of the islands.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#5. I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place called Xingwuying, locals climbed the Great Wall whenever they wanted to receive a cell phone signal.
Peter Hessler
#6. Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its stock because they thought they were in the know.
Kenneth Fisher
#7. The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would continue that process and bring the devil into the mix. At least John Smith didn't think Satan was involved.
Thomas C. Foster
#8. Your sad eyes are a river the locals know not to swim
Tyler Gonlag
#9. There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.
Tony Parsons
#10. Now, a month later, I sit, foggy, a similar state of mind, in a different seafood restaurant with a locals-know-every-secret bar, two happy hour martinis downed, fidgeting with my napkin below the lip of the table, and I barely hear Wendy ask me another question. She brought a bag of them tonight.
Justin Bog
#11. Throughout the '50s, tons of unknown locals came through Sun to record their demos. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all made their first recordings at the former Memphis Recording Service.
Shawn Amos
#12. So hot that the locals claimed a pervert was a man who preferred women to beer
Terry Hayes
#13. It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
Roger Ebert
#14. The power of network television is amazing. I've been performing for years but have been seen on only a few episodes of this show, and people spot me in public now all the time. They say, 'Hey, aren't you on 'Nashville'?' Most locals seem to really appreciate how authentic the show is.
J. D. Souther
#15. Accommodate the quickly expanding population. Intrigued, Warren contacted religious leaders in Southern California who told him that many locals self-identified as Christian but didn't attend services. In the dusty, dimly lit basement of that university
Charles Duhigg
#16. The divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.
Steve Martin
#17. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.
Tim Krabbe
#18. Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
Curtis Stone
#19. Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder.
Stefan Rahmstorf
#20. The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.
Damon Galgut
#21. I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.
Dave Barry
#22. This is one of the hallmarks of Vegas hospitality. The only bedrock rule is Don't Burn the Locals. Beyond that, nobody cares. They would rather not know. If Charlie Manson checked into the Sahara tomorrow morning, nobody would hassle him as long as he tipped big.
Hunter S. Thompson
#24. Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to.
Vivek Wadhwa
#25. where locals and fans could dance the night away and take home expensive swag,
Melissa Foster
#26. My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
Brion James
#27. Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money.
Donald Ray Pollock
#28. When you're in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.
Tracey Wilen
#29. The best way to be GLOBAL is to be LOCAL
Alex Atala
#30. Charleston is not the center of the universe, but it should be. That is the persistent perception of many locals.
Mark R. Jones
#31. In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
Daniel Boulud
#32. Join the locals as they bounce from place to place, never knowing what fun lies ahead but certain of the possibility. Add in local bounty such as the famous oysters and nearby
Fionn Davenport
#33. What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
Calvin Coolidge
#34. The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.
Paul Myers
#35. There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy.
Adam Richman
#36. One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
Pico Iyer
#37. Locals? I hit print on the shock file, and my face was the paper that came out of the printer! Locals! I had no idea this deep into the green inferno there'd be people living! Or dying!
Mark Gunk
#38. Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.
Jamie Oliver
#39. He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.
Stephenie Meyer
#40. Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.
Alan Huffman
#42. Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.
Wilbur Smith
#43. Although deer season doesn't start until November in Maine, the fields of October are often alive with gunshots; the locals are shooting as many peasants as they think their families will eat.
Stephen King
#44. Truthfully we were alone only in the ways Westerners speak of being alone in Africa, as if the few hundred locals by whom they are almost always surrounded are part of the landscape, instead of part of humanity.
Alexandra Fuller
#45. I don't know if I would refer to myself as a local celebrity.
Joshua Greenberg
#47. A steady spray of mist silently soaks my fooyball jersey, an irritating rain we locals call spit. Not worth the trouble of opening an umbrella. Not worth spit. Kind of like me.
Jennifer Hotes
#48. There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
Bill Hybels
