Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

Someone's always saying something about me.

Where I grew up, there was one supermarket, one school, one hairdresser, and that was it. It was a very small community.

Truth be told, that's really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.

Some people will always gossip.

Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

Normally, I never listen to the people who speak about me.

I can't stop people talking and linking me with teams I've played for.

I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it was, like, isolated, and everybody knew everybody, and you go to school with the grandkids of the grandparents that your grandparents went to school with.

People are going to talk bad about you no matter who you are.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

All my friends are so small town.