#town

Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #funny #ghost-town #humor #michael-glass

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#around #career #going #grown #had

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas. ↗

— Johnny Manziel

#kid #small-town #texas

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#charleston #first #first thing #hospital #i

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you. ↗

— Fred Frith

#art #being #debates #downtown #ends

We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#compete #dance #dollar #entertainment #only

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#hamburg #i #like #live #looks

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#baggy #big #downtown #earrings #going

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ↗

— Bill Gates

#global #global village #internet #square #tomorrow

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#bit #could #exposed #fingertips #great