Place Quotes

California is a great place to live if you're an orange.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.