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Quotes About Location

It was just eye-opening: to see how much your geography could determine the opportunities available to you.
~ Michael Lewis
What they are is a small tablet about six inches square, which has a screen in it. As you walk it shows a scrolling digital map of the area you're in, telling you what each store you pass sells, who lives in what block, the whole works, updated by small beacons on every street corner. If you tap in a destination the screen shows you a red line to follow, and the tablet whispers at you to tell you when to make a turn.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
But we were confident that Olive Lawrence had some tracing in her head from a faint light in the distance or a shift of wind that told her exactly where she was and what she was going towards
~ Michael Ondaatje
Sin is geographical.
~ Bertrand Russell
Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff was done on an aboriginal settlement on the south shore, opposite Cairns, which I believe was the site where the last person was eaten in Australia.
~ Brian Cox
When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling.
~ Daniel Goldstein
I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.
~ Marton Csokas
As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.
~ John Burnside
I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.
~ Adepero Oduye
I love filming in Britain.
~ Jason Priestley
Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place.
~ John McLeod
England?" she said with unreserved amazement. "Why do you live in England?" "Because it is nothing like Indianapolis
~ Bill Bryson
New Zealand, meanwhile, is part of the immense Indian Ocean plate even though it is nowhere near the Indian Ocean.
~ Bill Bryson
The Earth at last had a position in space.
~ Bill Bryson
The specific site is Church Flatts Farm, which is officially 70.21 miles from the nearest patch of coastline. Some passerby had marked the spot with a roll of old carpet heaved into the hedge.
~ Bill Bryson
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
~ Bill Waterson
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
~ Bill Watterson
we are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep....
~ Bob Dylan
Why put an alarm where you are not?
~ Bob Mayer
When it came to the location of clandestine meetings, all operatives held to the acronym PACE. It stood for: primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency.
~ Brad Thor
I am not home. I am here.
~ Susanna Clarke
Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
~ Julio Cortazar
where you'd parked your Civic.
~ Junot Diaz
just longitude and latitude. Thirty-seven degrees, fifty-six minutes north by one hundred seven degrees, forty-nine minutes west.
~ Justin Cronin