Towns Quotes - Page 3

• I was on one bus with my band and crew for seven years. I didn't come to town with a karaoke tape. I didn't get on a TV show. There were no shortcuts. Anybody who wants to follow my model is welcome to it. You don't want to follow my path.

  Kenny Chesney

  Years, Tv Shows, Tape

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• We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fossil fuel economy to fabricate the hardware. Same with photovoltaic (solar) energy. We're going to be disappointed by what these things can do for us.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Running, Wind, Fossils

  Entrevista con Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Sex, Believe, Successful

  Entrevista con Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Men, Rude

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• King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

  Juana de Arco

  Kings, Keys, Heaven

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• La primera vez que te escapas de casa o de la pequeña ciudad en la que vives - hay una razón por la que una pequeña ciudad se llama pequeña ciudad: Es porque no hay mucha gente que quiera vivir allí.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Home, People, Want

  "Billie Joe Armstrong, From Green Day To Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 27, 2010.

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• I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

  David Arquette

  Lying, People, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A las ciudades les cuesta tanto como a las empresas salir de la ruina.

  Honore de Balzac

  House, Literature, Ruins

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• I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Travel, Dirty, Naughty

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• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

  Jacques Barzun

  Baseball, Team, Heart

  God's Country and Mine ch. 8 (1954)

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• I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

  Justin Bieber

  Singing, Hobbies, Small Town

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• I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  London, Small Town, Grew Up

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• No es que Alaska no sea una zona salvaje: la mayor parte lo es. Pero la mayoría de los habitantes de Alaska no viven en la naturaleza. Viven al borde de la naturaleza, en pueblos con escuelas, televisión por cable, tiendas, dentistas y, a veces, pistas de patinaje. Es como cualquier otro lugar, pero con montañas y alces.

  Tom Bodett

  Escuela, Alaska, Montaña

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• Este viaje comenzó hace unos 42 años en una pequeña ciudad de Brunswick, Georgia.

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, Journey, Years

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• Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Adventure, Way, Hong Kong

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• I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

  Lenny Bruce

  Funny, Hate, Boredom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Si haces el Sendero de los Apalaches, tienes que llevar mucho más equipo -tienda de campaña, saco de dormir-, pero si haces senderismo en Inglaterra, o en Europa, por lo general, las ciudades y los pueblos están lo suficientemente cerca entre sí como para que al final del día siempre puedas ir a una bonita posada y darte un baño caliente y tomar algo.

  Bill Bryson

  Niza, Dormir, Europa

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• As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

  Julie Burchill

  Age, Middle, Novel

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). "Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea", Virgin Books Limited

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• Cuando me trasladé a Brighton desde Londres en 1995, me sorprendió lo que yo consideraba un pueblo. Un pueblo, me parecía, era ese lugar perfecto para vivir, ni ciudad ni campo, ambos a los que les gusta pensar que están a años luz de distancia, pero que en realidad tienen mucho en común.

  Julie Burchill

  País, Pensamiento, Luz

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). "Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea", Virgin Books Limited

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• 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

  Matter, Los Angeles, Disadvantages

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• Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.

  David Byrne

  Running, Central Park, Parks

  "David Byrne and Jeremy Deller: Audio Games". Modern Painters Interview, www.blouinartinfo.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Hollywood es un cruce entre una granja sanitaria, un centro recreativo y un manicomio. Es una ciudad de empresa, ¡y resulta que me gusta la empresa!

  Michael Caine

  Insane, Hollywood, Lunatic Asylums

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• The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

  Michael Caine

  Ovation, Talent, Standing Alone

  "Blame Phil Collins: 'South Park' loses song Oscar to 'Tarzan'" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2000.

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• Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.

  Adam Carolla

  Thinking, Leaving, Hollywood

  "Adam Carolla sobre el cambio de partido y Obama: 'Estoy esperando a que la esperanza y el cambio hagan efecto'". Entrevista con Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 7 de noviembre de 2012.

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• Lo he intentado todo. He hecho terapia, he hecho colonics. Fui a una vidente que me hizo correr por la ciudad comprando trozos de cinta para rellenar los colores de mi aura. Hice lo del Prozac.

  Jim Carrey

  Correr, Color, Psíquicos

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