Place Quotes

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Give it a kick at the right place and it'll work.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

If you really know... what you want and how to get there, then everything else really falls into place.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

Solitude is the place of purification.

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.