Top 100 This Town Quotes
#1. they were bonded together by generosity in good times and solidarity in bad. This was what he would be fighting for, these people, this town. And if he had to give his life for them, it would be well spent.
Ken Follett
#2. There's so few people in this town with a conscience.
Blake Edwards
#3. Taxis are useful in this town, aren't they?" Clayton mused. "So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same.
Peter F. Hamilton
#4. Know one or two families, at least, in this town, who, for nearly a generation, have been wishing to sell their houses in the outskirts and move into the village, but have not been able to accomplish it, and only death will set them free.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
Taylor Kitsch
#6. This town has done us dirty
This town has bled us dry
We've been here for a long time
And we'll be here 'til we die
So we'll finish off the leavings
Of blood and glue and beer
And burn this bloody city down
In the summer of the year
Shane MacGowan
#7. The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust.
Charles Dickens
#8. Date?" I hear the hardness creeping into his voice. "I've escorted a lot of women around this town, and I've fucked a hell of a lot of them. But I didn't date them.
J. Kenner
#9. I feel sorry for everyone in this town who's sleeping.
Jennifer Niven
#10. Am I supposed to do something
important?
It doesn't seem enough
to merely take up space
on this planet
in this country
in this state
in this town
in this family.
Sharon Creech
#11. She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#12. I could just hear my mom now, You know those old candy cigarettes are bad for you. Next thing you know, you'll be drinking alcohol, and they'll find you dead in a ditch somewhere. I'll never be able to show my face in this town again.
K. Martin Beckner
#13. He was a fixer. He knew everyone who counted. He understood how things really worked in this town, as opposed to what they taught you in civics class or what you read in the papers, and he had a strong enough stomach to deal with all the creepy-crawlies you found when you turned over the rock.
Joseph Finder
#14. No life anywhere, no life in this town or this place or in this weary existence
Charles Bukowski
#15. Haven't you ever wanted something so bad that it becomes more than a want? I need to get out of this town. I need it like I need to breathe.
Alwyn Hamilton
#16. In this town to know three languages is an unnecessary luxury. It's not even a luxury, but a sort of unnecessary addition, like a sixth finger. We have a great deal of superfluous knowledge.
Anton Chekhov
#17. I need you to find me a recipe for poison," he snapped. "Something that can kill the varmints that riddle this town."
"Animal varmints, or the human variety?" She was so prim when she said it, earning a reluctant twist of his lips as he tried not to smile.
Elizabeth Camden
#20. I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda
#21. The women in this town are going to be so disappointed you're off the market."
"There are other women in this town besides you?
Shannon Stacey
#22. There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
Louis Jourdan
#23. Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
Katherine Dunham
#24. The dead don't stay dead in this town!
Haunted Richmond II-Pamela K. Kinney
Pamela K. Kinney
#25. The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
Nicholas Monsarrat
#26. [N]ine-tenths of the people who are in the Home Service don't want to go abroad. They are people who live in Washington and have gotten acquainted with the jungle of this town and know their way around.
Charles E. Bohlen
#27. The basics of running this town are very simple. All you need to do is reward those with something to offer, and the way to recognize them is that they can do something you can't; it's that simple. And when you identify them, you protect them with the meanest bastards you can find.
Matt Mayr
#28. I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.
Donald T. Regan
#29. The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
Mark Ruffalo
#30. this town is sometimes too much, so desperate and so in denial.
Gillian Flynn
#31. The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones."
"That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#32. The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.
Wayne Dyer
#33. In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of those nature specials in which a guy brings a camcorder to the North Pole and then the camera cuts out and you hear on the news that he got eaten by a bear
Flynn Meaney
#34. At dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles. Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, they say. Depart immediately to open country.
Anthony Doerr
#35. She had understood all that he had said, with no way of knowing what he meant. It was as though he himself existed here in this town in this state in translation, ambiguous, slightly wrong, too highly colored or wrongly nuanced. Within him was the original, which no one could read.
John Crowley
#36. There are too many people for this town. - China, about Roarhaven
Derek Landy
#37. Everybody better stay out of my way because I'm steamrollering my way through this town, powered on snark.
Sean Kennedy
#38. This town needs to win at something. We need to feel, just once, that we're best. I know it's a game. But that's not all it is. Not always.
Fredrik Backman
#39. But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.
Jennifer Echols
#40. The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
Lamar Odom
#41. The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.
Janet Napolitano
#43. How pathetic this town must be to find a fuckup like me as their savior.
Karina Halle
#44. I walked him down to the front door, and the Savannah air assaulted me as I opened the door. "This town was never the same without you." He turned around and started his short walk home, disappearing into the black of the night.
Alexandria Rhodes
#45. This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)
Kellie Elmore
#46. There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them;
Who don't know much excepting what's told them.
Will Carleton
#47. My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.
Jason Biggs
#48. He thought: This town has the wrong name. It ought to be Time.
Stephen King
#49. They got ninjas working as strippers in this town or something? Well.
L.A. Witt
#50. Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'
Linda Ronstadt
#51. Say the word Pepsi in this town, you best watch your back on the way out.
Alessandra Torre
#52. This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.
Danny Elfman
#53. this town has no soul. and nobody yields to your love. nobody yields, period.
Catherine Clark
#55. God help me, I'm gonna make sure we get out of this alive and I'm going to kill that son of a bitch ... I'm gonna make him wish he never stepped foot in this town -Emerson Shaw
Justin Bienvenue
#56. It will not have escaped you that this town simulates normality that is completely illusory: every day something happens that one might euphemistically call irritating.
Alessandro Baricco
#57. My love for Sherry had been a shout across the silent night. Standing back here, in this town with her, was like being in a canyon. That shout became an echo, and that love sounded like a deafening never-ending roar.
Jeannine Allison
#58. The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. That's all you have to do, Jane, just find your fit." "Or I can follow your lead and unleash a plague of locusts like this town has never seen," I said, rubbing my chin with an evil-genius glare.
Molly Harper
#60. I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.
Fanny Burney
#61. The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men in the lobby every night-to see that the guests didn't bring their own liquor instead of buying it from the house.
Raymond Chandler
#62. He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy."
"Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You've never seen so many of the faithful who're armed.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#64. My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.
Lennon Parham
#65. Last dance with Mary Jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in and I'm
Tired of this town again
Tom Petty
#66. The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.
Christopher Gist
#67. This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails
Daniel Defoe
#68. This town needs people like Neva Shilling, people with a giving spirit and a desire to serve. Especially in these times of hardship, Mrs. Shilling is a beacon of hope that things can be better if we're willing to give of ourselves.
Kim Vogel Sawyer
#69. I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.
Carson McCullers
#70. I did not have all the answers. I did not know if I'd deserved God's grace or wrath, or what would become of me if I ever fled this town.
But I did know how to shoot a gun. - Skylla Warden
Rachael Wade
#71. December 21, 1970 well, the amateur drunks have taken over and will hold this town until Jan. 2 ... driving on the wrong side of the street, running red lights, bellowing the same songs. figs of people, twigs of people, shits of people ... MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR. Christomighty, yeah.
Charles Bukowski
#72. The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear. I've always thought that it's because if you were to die suddenly, you'd look better for God.
Peter Hedges
#73. If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater
#74. Looking at this town with an honest eye was like biting into candy with a mouthful of cavities.
Steve Aylett
#75. There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.
Jeff Daniels
#76. Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.
Rachel Caine
#77. So i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.
Taylor Swift
#78. I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
Otis Blackwell
#79. When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don't waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go
straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies.
Hunter S. Thompson
#80. What do you do for fun in this town?
Well, you know. Wash dishes. Wipe up baby drool, put a new quart of oil in him once in a while. Watch the Weather Channel to see if any of the neighbors have been blown away by a tornado. Eat too much cheese and get cheese farts.
Keeps you busy, huh?
Nick Wilgus
#82. I'm Galileo in prison. I'm a supercomputer in a junkyard. I'm being wasted, Irene. This town is killing me by inches, turning my mind to mush.
Eva Morgan
#83. You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.
Zach Braff
#84. Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
George P. Shultz
#85. I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial. Better the blacksmith with his cries of rage and woe.
J.M. Coetzee
#86. This town will eat you up if you're not careful. But I won't be here forever.
Ruta Sepetys
#87. A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
Hunter S. Thompson
#88. Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.
Robin Wright
#89. Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart
Jerry Garcia
#90. We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.
Russ Feingold
#91. His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#92. I mostly felt fortunate, to have lived here, in this house, in this town, with this family and these parents, and tried to think of all the things that had influenced me along the way.
Jason Gay
#93. Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.
Conor Oberst
#94. They could rename this town shithole and be accused of putting on airs.
Brian Haig
#95. The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people who believe essentially we've already lost in Iraq and it's time to get out - and most of the rest of us who believe not only have we not lost, but we're winning.
Joe Lieberman
#96. I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.
Don Ameche
#97. I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.
Barack Obama
#98. I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.
Jeffrey Skoll
#99. And what ails you that you fight not in the way of God, and for the weak and oppressed - men, women, and children - who cry out, Our Lord! Bring us forth from this town whose people are oppressors, and appoint for us from Thee a protector, and appoint for us from Thee a helper.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#100. There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I'm a guy who loves democracy. I'm all for democratizing any process, but I think there is a price to pay for that.
Tavis Smiley
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