Place Quotes

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

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.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

There is no place people can hide from me.

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.'

We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'