“In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.” YearsHas BeensCasesCenturyBuiltTownsPassingPassingsEnhancementDegeneration Book:Tristes Tropiques Source: Tristes Tropiques
“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.” IfsWorldWayGivingFeelsKindMadeStillsSometimesWholeJoyFightingLeftLove IsCasesWiseHappenedPossibilityTownsRichesDestroyedPlentyInstantRedeemedCrumbsStill LifeFighting Back Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.” PeopleWorldPlayBigsUsedCasesGrowing UpGrowingStreetsGrewGrew UpTownsGuitarThrownFestivalsOntario Author:Justin Bieber
“Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city.” YearsSufferingCitiesCasesBuiltRiversTownsAgreeHeavySpotsSicknessRemoveOutletsUnhealthyStagnantPetitionsVaporMarshes Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah. That led me to discover through census data that these towns were already extremely white and they were becoming, in most cases, even whiter. Statistics could only tell me so much; in order to get to the spirit and essence of it, I had to immerse myself.” MovingSpiritOrderWhiteCasesBecomingEssenceTownsFolksHearingDataStatisticsBuzzOregonUtahIdahoCensus Author:Richard Benjamin
“The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure that he called a "phalanstery." In both cases they had these architectural dreams that we now recognize as pretty unappealing.” WholeDreamCitiesVisionCasesDesignBuildingHugeFitTownsStructureMassiveSchemesUtopianVersaillesFourierParallelogram Author:Christine Jennings
“In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More often than not, the insurance company that protects you against this type of lawsuit will settle it with cash and contest it in a court of law.” LawGuyLinesCompanyCasesRecordsCrimeTypeProtectTownsBlueCourtCommittedCriminalsPartnersShootingSettlingTexasCashKillersCopContestsYou AgainProtect YouLawsuitInsurance CompaniesPartners In Crime Author:Errol Morris
“Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.” PeopleWorldWellsFoundWaitingCasesLandStudentsSucceedTownsWorkersFolksIllVicesMatesRestlessRetiredVice VersaServicemen Author:Tom Robbins
“And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.” TryingHardCasesHard WorkAmountTownsSorryI'm SorryDistrustBushism Author:George W. Bush
“That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.” WantedCasesTeamFansBasketballTownsOpposition Author:Bob Cousy
“n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.” PeopleCasesWeekStupidThousandTenTragedyDiedTownsDestroyedKansasDumb LiberalStupid Liberal Author:Barack Obama