White Towns Quotes

#1. She said that white towns had simply banded together to rid themselves of the black stronghold in their midst. That is how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can't control it, they destroy it. If

Colson Whitehead

#2. The price of the liberation of the white people is the liberation of the blacks - the total liberation, in the cities, in the towns, before the law, and in the mind.

James Baldwin

#3. I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

Jack White

#4. Life has this beautiful way of opening doors when you least expect it. How thy open is sometimes never known. But does that not only further justify the magic and the possibility to the thought, that there is more to life than that which meets thee eye.

Tania Elizabeth

#5. You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

Jack White

#6. Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?

John F. Kennedy

#7. Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.

Sherman Alexie

#8. Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?

Richard Kadrey

#9. Someone has to warn you."
"That's novel. A stalker warning his victim.

Anna Durand

#10. Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Josh Billings

#11. In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

Ivan Turgenev

#12. Never a day will go by that I won't love you. And never will there be a hint of uncertainty that you belong anywhere else but right here.

Nashoda Rose

#13. Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips - once it's smoked it cannot be unsmoked.

Aleksandar Hemon

#14. I'm not someone who likes to live in the gym.

Jai Courtney

#15. 7How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Anonymous

#16. Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck.

Tom Brokaw

#17. The tongue they speak there is not like any spoken in the Archipelago or the other Reaches, and they are a savage people, white-skinned, yellow-haired, and fierce, liking the sight of blood and the smell of burning towns.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

Cassandra Clare

#19. May God watch over your soul, which no man may abuse.

John Irving

#20. But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

Danny McBride

#21. Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#22. I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

Bill Frisell

#23. Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

E.B. White