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Quotes About Location

If I've got a black joke, and I can't tell it in Oakland, then I shouldn't tell the joke anywhere else.
~ Carlos Mencia
We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
~ Wayne Rogers
We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.
~ Norton Juster
Being lost is not a matter of knowing where you are. It's a matter of knowing where you aren't.
~ Norton Juster
he had not been in Coralio long enough for his enthusiasm to cool in the heat of the tropics—a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn.
~ O. Henry
The first such suicide had come from the city of Batman, a hundred kilometers from Kars.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Today, most translation work happens remotely, and translators can live almost anywhere. The up and down nature of most freelancers' work loads also lends itself to using free time to take classes, pursue hobbies, travel or spend time with family.
~ Corinne McKay
where'd you get that pistol? At the gettin place
~ Cormac McCarthy
He'd bivouacked on the north side of the town
~ Cormac McCarthy
Suppose you was someplace that you didnt know where it was. The real thing you wouldnt know was where someplace else was. Or how far it was. It wouldnt change nothin about where you was at.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The earth fell away on every side equally in its arcature and by these limits were they circumscribed and of them were they locus.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It's a big world, and most of it is fungible. Doesn't matter where you are or what's around you, if you can cover your basic needs and find something productive to do.
~ Cory Doctorow
Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing
~ Craig Groeschel
it makes such difference where you read
~ Walt Whitman
Noch bei der höchstvollendeten Reproduktion fällt eines aus: das Hier und Jetzt des Kunstwerks – sein einmaliges Dasein an dem Orte, an dem es sich befindet.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The point, however, is not where you reside but where you dwell.
~ Walter D. Mignolo
Its other significant attribute was that it was just over the line inside what was then the Cupertino-Sunnyvale School District
~ Walter Isaacson
Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to Little Rock. I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in Oklahoma instead of Arkansas...
~ Charles Portis
We are told that the main risk factors threatening Singapore's peace and prosperity are, first, our own unreliability as citizens (we may succumb to the temptation of welfarism, communalism, individualism or emigration) and, second, our location in an unpredictable region.
~ Cherian George
An arrow pointed into its center, above which were written the words YOU ARE HERE. This image had become ubiquitous on T-shirts as well as posters and I always felt mildly irritated by it, unsure of how to take it, whether it was meant to be comical or grave, to indicate the largeness of our lives or the insignificance.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The sky didn't wonder where it was.
~ Cheryl Strayed
It's Hlynur Bjorn Hafsteinsson, Bergporugotu, 8b, Reykjavik, Iceland. — Is there no postal code? — Oh yes. It's hundred and one Reykjavik. I'm the one.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Place has ceased to be of importance now that power no longer lives at a fixed address. ... Power's location is less important than its velocity through temporary obstacles. The speed of a tank ramming through the baricade of history.
~ Lawrence Chua