Best towns & turns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.”

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.”

May School Artist Turns Teacher Towns Painter Copies Honour Abandoned Imitation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

“The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.”

Made Ends Problem Past Turns Choices Fighting Clear Towns Corruption Halls Voters

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.”

People Feels May Persons Sometimes Turns Chance Streets Willing Towns Library Neighbor Circles Being The Best Friendly Pool Small Town Acquaintance Overlapping Lexington

Author:Kim Edwards

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a prophet in one's own country - well - in a way it works for me too: you see - this might be called my home town - well of all the old friends and acquaintances not one takes me seriously as a photographer - not one has asked me to show my work... (On returning to San Francisco)”

Knows Way Feels Wells Country Shows Home Might Turns Towns Photographer Prophet Take Me San Francisco Acquaintance Old Friends Home Town

Book:The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston

Source: The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston

“Grew up in a small town where there was only one crazy guy. He didn't even go insane doing anything good, like going to 'Nam or having an extended acid trip. Turns out - legend has it - he just had some bad cheese.”

Guy Turns Crazy Grew Grew Up Towns Insane Legends Cheese Small Town Acid Acid Trip

Author:Brian Posehn

“Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.”

Turns Stage Talent Baby Ambition Towns Paris Ambitious Breakthrough Expats

Author:Lesley M. M. Blume

“The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use you. And the evidence is clear. Look at all of these groups that have been voting Democrat for 50 years. Take a look at the towns that have been nothing but Democrat, towns and cities, for 30 years, and just take a look at them. The evidence is right there. We got the strong, silent type, and they have been replaced by this pajama-clad kid that the Regime used to sell Obamacare. The pajama kid! The nerd in his pajamas.”

“When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.”

Littles Eye Artist Turns Sea Missing New York Europe Towns Farms Discontent Little Towns

Author:Norman Rockwell

“...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.”

Men Doe Eye Turns Left Towns Hills Range His Eyes Soar

Book:Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”

“If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.”

People Ifs Stills Play Shows Guy Turns Religious Gone Fans Towns Radio Mainstream

Author:Jason Aldean

“The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.”

Ifs Knows Made Enough Hands Eye Turns Dark Behinds Sky Drink Thousand Lucky Gold Essence Towns Green Belly Purple Altars Liquor Herbs Flare Mardi Gras Glow In The Dark Chartreuse

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“And you don't ever have to worry about what I feel. The way I feel about you won't change. You can do whatever you like to me. You could turn this town to dust, burn the woods until they were cinders, you could cut out my heart. It wouldn't matter. It would not change a thing." "What if I ate a baby?" Jared's mouth curved up at the corners, slow and not cruel at all. "I'm sure you'd have a good reason," he said.”

Ifs Way Feels Heart Said Matter Reason Turns Can Do Worry Cutting Baby My Heart Mouths Towns Corners Woods Dust What If

Book:Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)

Source: Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)

“Please don't take a turn to negative town.”

Turns Please Negative Towns Wedding Crasher

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks—saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!”

Turns Week Towns Hey Underwear Laundry Gals Laundromats

Author:Patricia Heaton

“The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.”

Source: A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works

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