Quotes About Places

It's a common misconception that places that have suffered psychic trauma must look sinister, too, with gaping windows, creaking doors, and walls twisted subtly out of shape. As with people, so with houses—a smiling, innocuous exterior can conceal the blackest heart, and

if it weren't for the fact, ladies and gentlemen, that I never go to the movies. Indeed, I've never even been inside a cinema, not even when I was a child, when it was fashionable to spend Sundays in one of those dark places.

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality.

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

they are not memories no he has no memories no nothing to prove he was ever above no in the places he sees no but he may have been yes skulking somewhere yes hugging the walls yes by night yes he can't affirm anything no deny anything no so one can't speak of memories no but at the same time one can speak of them yes

Almost the only places in the world that have lower obesity averages than Japan are countries such as Ethiopia or North Korea where there is widespread hunger and food itself is scarce.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

Movie lots are strange places. You feel like you're in a waking dream, meeting cowboys and showgirls, ape-men and Roman centurions, all of them just walking along like any other bunch of workers on their way to the office or the factory. They looked even stranger than usual today, since most of them had umbrellas up

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

I've gotten to do some really amazing things, gone to some really amazing places, and just have some really unique experiences. And if I have one regret looking back it's that - not a regret even, because I think that's kind of labeling depression as something you can control - but I just wish I would have been able to enjoy it more fully.

I don't regret any of the places I went in football. Everything gave me an experience or memories that I'll have forever. We had more success in San Francisco, but it was a great time everywhere. I always had fun.

I'm relatively sensitive to the atmosphere of what places are like, what relationships are like, and the feeling of power in rooms.

I'll always be somebody who spends a lot of time in a lot of places; that's just always going to be the way. But I try to spend as much time in Ireland as I can, because it's lovely, and it feels like a release.

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water, and it's horrific.

I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.

When you think about the worst places humans come into contact with, they are often our health environments.

to an author there is a certain romance when stray copies of his work turn up in far, poor or abandoned places of the world.

That's our goal every year, to win the World Series, like it is at most places. In L.A., it really is.

Heartbreak is a luxury in my opinion. In a lot of places in the world there's no time for that. People are worried about how they're going to get their next meal. There's no time to cry over someone.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.