Quotes About Places

If you die and go to Hell the Braves fan said, you have to change places in Atlanta.

La belleza antigua no basta -dijo-. Antiguos lugares, comportamientos antiguos, dioses antiguos. Actualmente el mundo está lleno de preguntas, y hay formas nuevas de belleza.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

Success in the movies has pushed me to places I didn't know I was allowed to go.

WITCHES TAKE THEIR NAMES FROM PLACES, for places are what give them their strength. The place need not be beautiful, or habitable, or even green. Sand and salt, so much the better. Scrub pine, plumberry, and brambles, better still. From every bitter thing, after all, something hardy will surely grow. From every difficulty, the seed that's sewn is that much stronger. Ruin is the milk all witches must drink; it's the lesson they learn and the diet they're fed upon.

WITCHES TAKE THEIR NAMES FROM PLACES, for places are what give them their strength. The place need not be beautiful, or habitable, or even green. Sand and salt, so much the better. Scrub pine, plumberry, and brambles, better still. From every bitter thing, after all, something hardy will surely grow. From every difficulty, the seed that's sewn is that much stronger.

Within such places, some of those on sale were considered more desirable if they possessed abnormalities, exactly what the Professor wished to find.

I merely reminded her to not only set an intention every day with regard to what that summer would look like—what people she would see, what events would transpire, what places she would visit—but also to feel what it would be like to experience these things.

That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit.

maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.

I believe that people and places form each other . . . the touch of one returning the touch of the other. What we seek, I think, is tenderness in this encounter, but that goes both ways, too. I believe that places acquire their sacredness through this giving and taking. And with that ever-returning touch, we acquire something sacred from the place where we live. What we acquire, of course, is a home.120

Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

When I go to my friends' places back home, I'm constantly fixing their TVs.

Florida has places to go with your family; places to go downtown; it's got something for everyone.

It's like this - because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I've been.

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet.

Alcuni posti, dove è avvenuto qualcosa di significativo, diventano sacri. L'amore produce una geografia sacrale del mondo.

Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.

He knew names and places, experienced emotions without number, reviewed data of innumerable unexplored crannies. There was time to probe and test and taste, but no time to shape.

He saw people. He felt the heat and cold of uncounted probabilities. He knew names and places, experienced emotions without number, reviewed data of innumerable unexplored crannies. There was time to probe and test and taste, but no time to shape. The thing was a spectrum of possibilities from the most remote past to the most remote future—from the most probable to the most improbable. He saw his own death in countless ways. He saw new planets, new cultures. People. People.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.