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Quotes About Place

Feudal societies don't create great cinema we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who ' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.
~ Brian Cox
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
~ Brian Eno
It was a magnificent setting in a remote part of the world. My kind of place.
~ Brian Hancock
A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.
~ Brian Selznick
because here, Bullet, here is where the world ends, every time.
~ Brian Turner
Time and place are our own limitations, Andy; we mustn't impose them upon God.
~ Brother Andrew
For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands
~ Bruce Springsteen
We remain in the air, the empty space, in the dusty roots and deep earth, in the echo and stories, the songs of the time and place we have inhabited. My clan, my blood, my place, my people.
~ Bruce Springsteen
But then is no one at home any longer?" No, as a matter of fact. Neither state sovereignty nor inviolable borders can take the place of politics any longer.
~ Bruno Latour
Youth must its ignorant impulse lend-- Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish and are fought by boys
~ Herman Melville
For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the place; but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see naught in that brute but the deadliest ill.
~ Herman Melville
The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the road, a home where nobody knows your name and they're glad to see you as long as you can pay. The strip lives in the contradiction of the name Home Depot—domesticity on a gargantuan scale. Home—a person's native place, at ease, deep; to the heart, says the dictionary, and Depot, a storehouse or a 'warehouse.' (Warehouse of the Heart?)
~ Howard Mansfield
Earth: The Place for Life
~ Hugh Ross
The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Oh ignorant youth, the world is not a joyous place.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Maybe, God forbid, the place was what it appeared to be—a melange of Okies and thieves and bewildered jíbaros.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Why is God called "the Place" (hamaqom)? Because the universe is located in Him, not He in the universe.
~ Hyam Maccoby
When we got closer to the place, we saw the Palestinian flag. In the center of its triangle, the revolution had added the image of a crescent embracing a cross.
~ Ibrahim Nasrallah
Who the hell would attack the Steel Horse anyway? What was the thinking behind that? "Here is a bar full of psychotic killers who grow giant claws and people who pilot the undead for a living. I think I'll go wreck the place.
~ Ilona Andrews
You can't blame me," Ascanio said. "Anybody in my place would be concerned. You don't even have a proper horse. You're riding a mutant equine of unknown origin." "Don't disrespect my donkey
~ Ilona Andrews
Lord's is a special place. I used to love watching games there as a youngster and I've been fortunate enough to play a couple of games there.
~ Dale Steyn
In the crime fiction section, you may just find a novel that talks about the place where you're from and speaks to you about your life - or the life yours could have become if a little misfortune had come your way.
~ Adrian McKinty
Fueled by Ramen was maybe the first company to see YouTube as a place where music videos would go. The music video, which could never quite find a place on TV, has found its final form on YouTube.
~ Hank Green
New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place.
~ Louise Nurding