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Quotes About Places

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
~ Scott Thompson
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
~ Sara Sheridan
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.
~ Sara Sheridan
It is good people who make good places
~ Anna Sewell
In general, the reason things are on your mind is that the outcome and the action step(s) have not been appropriately defined, and/or reminders of them have not been put in places where you can be trusted to look for them appropriately.
~ David Allen
Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge." He read the names off the
~ David Baldacci
a Mexican border town just across the line from Brownsville, Texas, one of the most dangerous places on earth.
~ David Baldacci
It is in the world of things and places, times and troubles and turbid processes, that mathematics is not so much applied as illustrated.
~ David Berlinski
Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.
~ David Brin
Well, it's nice to know that the Trolls made it this far south,' Ulath said. 'I'd hate to have to go looking for them.' 'Their Gods were guiding them, Ulath,' Tynian pointed out. 'You've never talked with the Troll-Gods, I see,' Ulath laughed. 'Their sense of direction is a little vague - probably because their compass only has two directions on it.' 'Oh?' 'North and not-north. It makes finding places a little difficult.
~ David Eddings
All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.
~ William Shakespeare
O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confin'd within the weak list of a country's fashion; we are the makers of manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our places stops the mouth of all find-faults.
~ William Shakespeare
When all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not Heaven.
~ Christopher Marlowe
You cannot say— A body translates its you— you there, hey you even as it loses the location of its mouth. When you lay your body in the body entered as if skin and bone were public places, when you lay your body in the body entered as if you're the ground you walk on, you know no memory should live in these memories becoming the body of you.
~ Claudia Rankine
There are still many unseen, unvisited places in the world where decency of life is needed. Poverty is not the problem, but access to better living is the perennial dilemma.
~ Unknown
In this new hall the factions regroup in their old places. Legendre the butcher bawls out a Brissotin: "I'll slaughter you!" "First," says the deputy, "have a decree passed to say that I am an ox.
~ Hilary Mantel
But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there." "We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't." "What are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it?" "Pretty much.
~ Holly Black
I know the number of steps to the top of every spire. I know every corner that a child could hide in, every place she could be dragged out from.
~ Holly Black
Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.
~ Linda Hogan
One day when the planet was idly pressing stegosaurs in her scrapbook, she threw out a whole plateau of souvenirs from the Ordivician, on impulse. She'd long since run out of places to put things.
~ Unknown
It can't be a coincidence, she thinks now; it can't be a coincidence that they've all gone, that they've abandoned houses, social media platforms, college places, friends.
~ Lisa Jewell
For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.
~ Kit Bond
Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
~ Hal Sparks
If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
~ Daniel Boulud