Best towns & certain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.”

Made Character Certain Given Space Events Building Happenings Towns Patterns Atoms Locked Molecules Geometric

Author:Christopher Alexander

“On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.”

Ifs Different Seems Certain Realizing Space Levels Building Elements Ultimate Towns Endless Block Variety Combination Constituents Building Blocks Puzzling Geometric

Author:Christopher Alexander

“Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.”

Ifs Children Certain Common Towns Size Wander Witch Yards Occasional Witchcraft Puppy Having Children Big Fish Common Knowledge Misbehaving

Author:John August

“I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list.”

Ifs Night Certain Choices Games One Thing Taste Towns Spread Lists Fantastic Features Tigers Stadiums Rouge Lsu Baton Food Choices Baton Rouge Tiger Stadium

Author:Todd Blackledge

“There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.”

Source: Eugenie Grandet

“I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Seems Might Certain Amount Intelligent Towns Rate Rounds Small Changes

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.”

“Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.”

Knows Years Wells Book Certain House Years Ago Towns Atmosphere Thirty Charm Forty Grey Hospitality Railroads Denver Omaha

Book:A Lost Lady

Source: A Lost Lady

“The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.”

“I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.”

Want Certain Church My Family Towns Foundation

Author:Michelle Williams

“Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.”

People Knows School Certain Community Company High School Towns Institutions Publishing Small Town

Author:Alice Hoffman

“I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.”

Certain Energy Theory Built Towns Instance Cemetery Alabama Nashville Reservations Magnetic

Author:Caitlin Rose

“I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.”

“I think I'm more grounded, you know, and I know what I want out of life and I'm, you know, my morals are really, you know, strong and I have major beliefs about certain things and I think that has helped me, you know, from being, you know, coming from a really small town.”

Thinking Knows Want Certain Belief Strong Moral Majors Towns Grounded Small Town

Author:Britney Spears

“With me, as a town clerk or city manager, there are certain things that I'm supposed to do - if I don't do them, then I don't deserve to continue in this post.”

Ifs Certain Cities Deserve Towns Managers Posts Clerks

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.”

People Looks Shows Home Age Certain Simple Towns Homesick Home Town Andy Griffith Show Mayberry

Author:Tom Shales

“Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.”

Thinking Men World Feels Should Art Play Seems Spirit Certain Space Rooms Gone Grew Exercise Offers Demand Grew Up Men And Women Towns Luxury Eras Breathing Museums Tigers Crowded Bookstores Vacant

Author:John Updike

“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

Source: The mortgaged heart

“In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.”

Ifs Men Firsts Doe Certain House Party Week Couple Married Twenties Towns Possession Disappear Miles Hips Settling Gentleman Engaged Frightened Railroads Married Couples

Book:Cranford

Source: Cranford

“Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Trying Seems Running Certain Deals Clear Objects Limits Areas Towns Threat Pants Rumor Competitiveness

Book:Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.”

Country Law Certain Five Europe Towns Sells Fruit Lawyer Miles Bars Bread Instance Odd Borders Islands Bakers Where You Live Odd Things

Author:Daniel Handler

“There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I hope I inspire women to appreciate their muscular calves.”

Way Inspirational Looks Littles Motivational Certain Nice Inspire Healthy Appreciate Pressure Towns Suicide Well Being Meat Suicidal Thoughts Calves Inspire Women

Author:Jessica Biel

“The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!”

“There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.”

“The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.”

People Men Way Firsts Two Hands Christian Certain Drink Mets Men And Women Towns Smoke Smoking Accustomed Tobacco Herbs

Author:Christopher Columbus

Towns Quotes

Related topics

Towns Quotes