Quotes with dodge-town

Quotes 41 till 60 of 90.

  • Ben Affleck I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Barry Goldwater If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
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  • Brody Jenner If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Sharon Stone If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
    Sharon Stone
    American actress (1958 - )
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  • Bo Bennett If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bruno Schulz In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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  • Bill Moyers In those days, affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
    Help, speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 3 March 2007, Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Carson McCullers 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.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • A. A. Milne James James
    Morrison Morrison
    Weatherby George Dupree
    Took great
    Care of his Mother,
    Though he was only three.
    James James Said to his Mother,
    'Mother,' he said, said he;
    'You must never go down
    to the end of the town,
    if you don't go down with me.'
    Disobedience
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bill Dedman John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Just down the road stood a little town, which I shall call Dullard lest the people recognize themselves and take me to court or come to my house and batter me with baseball bats.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Oswald Spengler Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.
    Oswald Spengler
    German philosopher of history and historian (1880 - 1936)
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  • Carter Burwell Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Billy Wilder Marilyn [Monroe] was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
    The Show Business Nobody Knows (1971)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Billy Williams Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Bill Moseley My dad loved to 'arrange things' to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He'd take us to the old 'Hermit's House' at the edge of town. He'd park the car 100 yards down the street and say, 'Go back there and get something off the front porch!'
    Bill Moseley
    American film actor and musician (1951 - )
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  • Blake Bailey My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.
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  • Bill Rancic My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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