Place Quotes

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

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.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?