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This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.
- John Quincy Adams
I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'
- Jaime Camil
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
- Mark Twain
The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
while Mr. Edwards was in the town, and they had no other minister to preach to them, they carried on public worship among themselves, and without any preaching, rather than invite him.
- Jonathan Edwards
Rachel will be left pretty lonely if anything happens to him, with all her children settled out west, except Eliza in town; and she doesn't like her husband. Marilla's pronouns slandered Eliza, who was very fond of her husband.
- LM Montgomery
It was hot, but the town had a cool, fresh, early-morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the café.
- Ernest Hemingway
The room they lived in looked like the painting of Van Gogh's room at Arles except there was a double bed and two big windows and you could look out across the water and the marsh and sea meadows to the white town and bright beach of Palavas.
- Ernest Hemingway
We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.
- Ernest Hemingway
Isn't Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
When you think about a festival from a comedian's perspective, it has to do with who else does it - that's number one. The second consideration - and this is kind of crazy - is: 'What's the food like? What is the town like? Is it walkable? Is it easy to get around?'
- Pete Holmes
People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence.
- Alice Hoffman