It's like a ghost town out here.


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It was like a ghost town.
BILL PROSKO
like a ghost town. Nothing open, nobody around.
SOUZA
It was like a ghost town. No one made any noises.
JORDAN HAINES
It feels like a ghost town to me. And that's a good thing.
STEVE LEBLANC
East New Orleans is a virtual ghost town.
KAREN SMITH
Doorman: Good morning Mr. Peaknis

Mr. P.: Go to hell
RACHEL CAINE
From in here sometimes it sounds like the town is falling apart out there.
DAVID RAY
If you take away our high school, we'll be a ghost town.
CLYDE WILLIAMS
The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappe...
RANSOM RIGGS
The government has basically chased away all the people in that town. Golo is a ghost town. Everybod...
GEMMO LODESANI
Happiness is like a ghost everyone talks about, but no one knows its whereabouts.
DR HITESH C SHETH
New Orleans is a ghost town. The surface has not even been scratched.
COLLEEN COOKE
We're crossing our fingers. We've got to hope this won't become a ghost town.
ROBIN ANDERSON
The world is changing. People need to realize and Barstow needs to be more productive so it doesn't ...
BILL WHYDE
In reality, we'll just become a ghost town if you take our high school away.
CLYDE WILLIAMS
It's this residential neighborhood we're driving through. There's no cars, no people, just a ghost t...
LINDSEY MILLER
It seems like the whole town is here.
KRIS STEWART
It will leave boarded up premises on Castle Street - the main street - and create a ghost town.
ALAN HILL
America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.
LE MONDE
The river here in town is significantly blown out.
MATT HUNT
Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big ...
RACHEL CAINE
It's just like a little town. People that live here don't know this is here because we're kind of qu...
BILL GRANVILLE
Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
PLATEN
We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.
LOU STYLES
All these buildings were boarded up. Main Street was a ghost town. It's been exciting to see busines...
LARRY NELSON
This region twelve years ago was a ghost town, ... The casinos and hotels have revitalized the area ...
LARRY GREGORY
I like living in a smaller town better than I do the city. People in Memphis are spread out doing th...
ALLEN WALKER
Its the cycle. We're really lucky here. I think this is one of the best places in town.
GEORGE BURROWS
A feeble dart short of its mark.
DAVID TUVILL
A feeble dart short of its mark.
VIRGIL
I'm sure the town of Carver has fond memories of him. You lose something when you lose someone like ...
MIKE PERRY
[Referring to why the ghost town is built so far away] Because they're stupid! That's why everybody ...
HOMER SIMPSON
Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Here is a promise Of summer to be.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
A lot of things fell apart. It was truly a ghost town. Without revitalization, it would have continu...
LIZ SCOTT
It was like the ghost of racing past. I knew it was going to come down to that. ... I can't believe ...
KURT BUSCH
I had hoped to be here in the capacity of town attorney, but I am here as a town citizen.
DENNIS CURTIN
It turns out that there are a lot of people here in town who have moved out here from Arlington, Jam...
DIDI CHADRAN
In coaching the old adage is you'd really like to come in behind someone they wanted to run out of t...
DENVER JOHNSON
And how many a town have We destroyed which exulted in its means of subsistence, so these are their ...
QURAN
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Bran...
HUMPHREY BOGART
When there's no snow in town, it's harder to get people here. But the people coming out to the ski a...
DARCIE BREIDEL
There simply can be no repeat of anything like the NEP imposed by the federal Liberals in the 1980s....
BRAD WALL
You don't have the hustle and bustle of the city. In town, everything is rush here and rush there. W...
BRENDAN WISEMAN
About the only thing you have to go out of town for is clothes. Other than that, there is about ever...
CAROL TAYLOR
Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.
REBECCA MCKINSEY
We felt like the demand is here. The town is hungry for this type of restaurant.
BILL HISLE
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, ... I guarantee you, if...
BOB KNIGHT
Every boat show is not like that. There's the other boat shows that come to town and they bring in a...
LEN JORDAN
We'd like to see something that would have its own place in the community. Those of us who are out h...
BLAINE HUDSON
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
CLIVE BELL
...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte...
DAISY GOODWIN
And where did you spring from, Oskan? I’d already had enough shocks without you leaping out of the...
STUART HILL
When I saw her, it was like seeing a ghost.
TROY WEBB
It's the nature of the race, it seems like. I think there's enough of a local buzz about it that if ...
DAVE DUNN
I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My po...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
We wanted kids to have something to do here besides hiking. It's a place where families can get out ...
HAROLD JOHNSON
I didn't know what to think. It was like a ghost.
FRANK EMANUEL
Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort ...
NATE HOLLAND
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
ANTHONY BURGESS
Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blou...
AL JEFFERSON
But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserte...
RACHEL COHN
I walk out of my apartment, and St. Vincent's is standing there like a ghost ship. That was the ...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL
It was a total and complete shock. You don't expect that. Not here its really quiet out here.
FAITH THORNTON
And thus have We made in every town the great ones to be its guilty ones, that they may plan therein...
QURAN
So how many a town did We destroy while it was unjust, so it was fallen down upon its roofs, and (ho...
QURAN
This is a great atmosphere, ... You have a great town here.
DAN BRADLEY
Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when ...
FRITZ LEIBER
The town board shirked its duty,
PATRICIA MYERS
Just like a ghost you have been a-hunting my dreams, so I'll propose on Halloween. Love is kind of c...
CLASSIC IV
It's like a beacon in town, ... A lot of people leave Terre Haute and then come back, and they come ...
HAROLD FOSTER
Mark spoke like a poem and walked like a dance.
CASSANDRA CLARE
The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town ...
STEPHEN HARPER
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been h...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We hope everyone comes out and has a good time. We need more things like this in town.
DEBORAH STROUD
We're serious about our musical heritage here, ... Not every small town can claim the likes of someo...
RICHARD RAMSEY
She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.
STUART JAFFE
The thing I liked about Troy is that it seemed like a school that was based on sports. Like a lot of...
DEWHITT BETTERSON
I enjoyed playing with them. Out here, it was a little more like a circus. It's like playing with El...
DAVIS LOVE III
There's a lot of happy people here. In a small town news flies.
DAVE KNIGHT
It's not my favorite genre, generally, ... But I want to do it. I wanted to try my hand at it, becau...
MARK RUFFALO
The expectation in this community is so high, they'd run me out of town if I didn't make it. The atm...
ALVIN COPELAND
I think their derby is an awesome event for those in town who don?t have the opportunity to get out ...
DAVE NADLER
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
RONALD KNOX
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
Its great to see every one out here and enjoying themselves.
BILL MATHEWS
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt; And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It's gotten a whole lot rougher out here. It used to be quiet out here. It's not like that anymore. ...
CLAUDIA JONES
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
CHARLES DICKENS
We've noticed that it's back to the favorites, like a ghost, a clown or an angel.
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The whole town is out of gasoline. In Conroe, they told us we would find gas here, and they gave us ...
HERMAN TRUJILLO
My old world is feeling more and more like a ghost. You know how a dream feels the farther you get f...
BLAKE CROUCH
And how many a town which rebelled against the commandment of its Lord and His apostles, so We calle...
QURAN
I think its really disappointing. Jim Thome did a lot of good things for this town. It was kind of e...
OZZIE GUILLEN
Lovelock is a unique town with an ingenious idea to capitalize on its name.
LORRAINE HUNT
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it...
MAGGIE SMITH
We just thought it would be important to have a presence right here ... a place to relax a little bi...
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.
JESSICA SZOHR
I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001
PIPPA DACOSTA
This is a defining moment for UK. UK needs to make its mark with this issue.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN
Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
MARK TWAIN
Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
MARK TWAIN
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
MARK TWAIN
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
MARK TWAIN
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig...
MARK TWAIN
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
MARK TWAIN
We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether th...
MARK TWAIN
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ...
MARK TWAIN
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
MARK TWAIN
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
MARK TWAIN
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum...
MARK TWAIN
There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
MARK TWAIN
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he...
MARK TWAIN
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were...
MARK TWAIN