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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong
I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.
Larry is back in town...The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.
His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!
I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.
Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.
In states where there's one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don't have very many resources.
I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.
...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.
What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
Philly has always been one of our favorite towns to play in, and the fans have been very loyal and very supportive over the years.
I've played in practically every city in Scotland, and loads of towns as well. I just feel very grateful that I'm able to do that.
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.
I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.
We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.
I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.
True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.
I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city.
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
'Service Wali Bahu,' like most other serials, cater to women audiences and is aimed at smaller towns where people are home by sunset.
Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.
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!
Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.
In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.
I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.
When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.
Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.