Place Quotes

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

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