“When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.” PeopleWholeRunningKidsMovingExistenceTownsDown AndWhole LifeLifestyleShoppingCentreCarnivalsNomadic Author:Randy Quaid
“The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats” GivingTryingBookBigsNamesCausesSoundCrazyColdTaxesGiving UpBeatsShotsCatTownsDown AndBrokePocketsClownAlleysOld LadyCrooksNighttimeDoughNotchesGunshotsTop NotchAlley Cats Author:Big L
“If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!” IfsEarthFacesHairCitizensTownsDown AndDallas Author:Andrew Jackson
“Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.” PeopleCitiesMovementEuropeTownsDown AndRoseSpreadSmellLandscapeUrbanOrganizeSlow DownSlow FoodUrban Landscape Author:Carl Honore
“He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.” MenSoulLightPastStarsBlackDarkKnowingSeaRocksHorseTownsDown AndMovedRosePassingPassingsShipsGrassSaltDrowningWhalesPassing ThroughSeamlessFerryColts Author:Cormac McCarthy
“Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.” IfsWayYearsLongChanceSupportHeardOppositesTownsDown AndPreparedFolksWavePopulationStoresOne WaySwimConventionalBe PreparedNicheWrong WayDiscountsConventional WisdomGood Chance Author:Sam Walton
“Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks.” KindCitiesDrinkTownsDown AndHanging OutContinuity Author:Ralph Reese
“One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad. He told of Pain and Rain and Cold, He told of Darkness in his soul, And after he finished his tale of woe, Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no, They laughed until they shook the trees... And while the world laughed outside. Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.” WorldFeelsSaidSoulPainFeltDarknessTreeCryColdOne DayRainTownsDown AndFinishedTalesSatLaughedCriedWoeClownSo Sad Author:Shel Silverstein
“I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.” WantNeedsGivingWritingLongMadePainLastsCommunityMy OwnHealingCryArmsWake UpTownsDown AndListsSpotsTonightFinding YourselfPensRemedyPacksRecipesItemsLetting You GoLove And TrustTime To Leave Author:Bell Hooks
“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.” LifeLooksSkyTownsDown AndThese DaysHipsterMargo Roth Spiegelman Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns