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  • We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich. -- George Edmund Street
  • In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars -- Sylvia Plath
  • There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding. -- Georges Duhamel
  • Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal." -- Bill Bryson
  • Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal. -- Bill Bryson
  • Nobody thought I'd be a great coach. I'm the kind of guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town. -- Rick Majerus
  • With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it. -- Matthew Lewis
  • I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town. -- Liam Hemsworth
  • We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American. -- Nick Robinson
  • I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent. -- John Niven
  • I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town. -- Luke Harding
  • Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing. -- Kevin Fowler
  • I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed. -- Don Winslow
  • I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me. -- Kevin Pietersen
  • Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns. -- James Connolly
  • Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. -- James Weldon Johnson
  • I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892. -- Barry Marshall
  • If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time. -- Ellen Goodman
  • Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise. -- Charles H. Townes
  • Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question. -- Charles H. Townes
  • Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them. -- Charles H. Townes
  • I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented. -- Charles H. Townes
  • There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. -- Charles H. Townes
  • I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town. -- H. G. Bissinger
  • Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions. -- Charles Hard Townes
  • The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live. -- Charles H. Townes
  • The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth. -- Charles H. Townes
  • Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises. -- Charles H. Townes
  • I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand. -- Charles H. Townes
  • It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before lasers were discovered. The ideas were all there; just, nobody put it together. -- Charles H. Townes
  • We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer. -- Charles H. Townes
  • In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at. -- Charles H. Townes
  • I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!' -- G. W. Bailey
  • One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it. -- Charles H. Townes
  • I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there. -- Charles H. Townes
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