(973 quotes found)
“Local businesses are under attack by an in invading army of franchisees. the mom & pops are a dying breed”
Kenneth waters Jr
“So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'”
Tommy Cooper
“The grievances of which we complain, be assured, sir, are not imaginary, but real - not local, but universal - not occasional, but continual, everyday matter-of-fact things and have become, to the disgrace of our common country, matters of history.”
Charles Lenox Remond
“In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.”
John Perry Barlow
“Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know”
Annie Dillard
“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar”
Charles Bukowski
“It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.”
Wendie Malick
“All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.”
Wallace Stevens
“The preparedness on all levels has increased 10-fold from the local citizens up to the government level. People are a taking it a lot more serious. I think everybody has seen how devastating these storms can be, both to their property and to their potential loss of life. I think the awareness level, seriousness and priority it has given has made it a lot easier for the preparation to take place.”
David Jennings
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
Alfred E. Smith
