“One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.” ImportantKnowingPaperTownsImportant ThingsReportersSmall Town Author:Terry Pratchett
“City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.” CountryPainChallengesCitiesKnowingTownsSmall TownSmallnessCity And Country Author:William P. Young
“When I might be on a business trip, a lot of people are partying and they may be drunk or under the influence of something that I'm not under the influence of, and that might influence their actions. I'm not even blaming them, but being in the club and not knowing what everybody's motives are, I have to take precautions damn near every week, especially when I go out of town.” PeopleMayMightActionPartyKnowingWeekInfluenceTownsBlameClubsDrunkDamnMotiveNot KnowingPrecautionBusiness Trips Author:Gucci Mane
“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
“My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.” HomeSleepKnowingSpecialBedTownsSunsetPacificSomething SpecialSleeping InSan DiegoHome Town Author:Jon Foreman
“I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing enough to be afraid of being myself or showing intelligence. But I wasn't the only kid like that in my classes because of where I grew up. I'm really thankful I grew up in a town where there were a lot of other mutant kids. I'm from Boulder, Colorado, which went through a lot of dramatic changes when I was growing up.” EnoughKidsClassGrowing UpKnowingWiseGrowingGrewGrew UpTownsAssDramaticNot KnowingAngleRemarksColoradoBeing MyselfBouldersMutantsDramatic ChangeWise Ass Author:Jello Biafra
“I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf.” IfsKnowingJokesTownsLocalsNot KnowingContestsBeginnersScarvesBlouses Author:Debbie Reynolds
“I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.” KnowsWayEndsFeelingsSeemsMightCommunityKnowingSeaGrewGrew UpEnlightenmentSickTownsWingsAbsenceMy WayAustraliaFishingGapsConservationHookMarineRedneckDoseSpearsHunted Author:Tim Winton
“Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What my upbringing got me is never feeling completely safe emotionally. Never knowing when something racial was going to pop off based on how I look. So that's something I've carried with me personally and is reflected in my work.” PeopleWayLooksFeelingsSchoolBlackGrowing UpKnowingGrowingSafeToughTownsPopsBlack PeopleUpbringing Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.” StoriesBusinessCitiesBehindsKnowingHairTownsCornersStoresRestaurantsShopsGymSmall BusinessCleanersHardwareBusiness OwnersSalonsSmall Business OwnersOur Town Author:Paul Ryan
“I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.” ThinkingMenYearsRealSleepSituationKnowingDadRacismYears AgoTownsSouthUniversityMy DadLabourServingLionsSouth AfricaNot KnowingReal MenCouncillors Author:Johnny Vegas
“I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.” PeopleWholeHomeWaitingDestinyMorningKnowingParticularArmsOrdinaryTownsWhole LifeLandscapeAwakeDestined Book:Wonder Boys Source: Wonder Boys
“All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.” PeopleFeelsPersonsMadeBookMightLeftPoorKnowingRecordsImagineShareListeningWindowTownsDecadesCollectionsShyIsolatedTravel Books Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.” “What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.” IfsMenWantSaidFacesNightGrowsRealizingPerfectMorningLaughingKnowingImagineLove YouHundredMy FriendsTownsAskingAppearanceYour FaceLiving My LifeSighWithout YouMarry Me Author:Julia Quinn
“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.” KnowsMenAgePastHistoryKnowingTownsHillsNot KnowingDisadvantagesHigh PointsAlone Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.” TryingStatesLightScienceHouseKnowingStreetsDiseaseResearchTownsWestEastRelatedGenesBurnedCoastScratchesBulbsWest CoastLight BulbEast And WestBurned Out Author:Francis Collins