Quotes About Place

Minneapolis has always been a mythical place for me because my mom is a massive Prince fan.

Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.

I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.

Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

David Cameron should be focusing on what is in Britain's national interest and our place in the world, not on internal party politics.

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

Gino to Ezekiel - You're a threat to anyone making your wife uncomfortable. That's the way it should be but Joe's in a bad place right now and I think he's looking for a fight

It was a violent place in which to discover a purpose. It was a good place to forge a friendship.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self place, but where we are is hell, and where hell is, there must we ever be; and, to be short, when all the world dissolves and every creature shall be purify'd, all places shall be hell that is not heaven. - Philly Boy

It kept him from reaching that place that he hit so, so often in his life, the mind-bending, sob-inducing limit where he said to himself, I just cannot endure any more motherfucking death. No more! Order. Put everything in order. Serve order. That was the why and what of it. Order.

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.

If I had scales, this place would make them itch , he said to Saphira. A small puff of smoke rose from her nostrils as she snorted with amusement.

Why do we live in Spooksville? It's not just because our families live here. It's because this is a place of adventure. The unknown surrounds us every time we leave our homes. I know what I'm doing is dangerous. All great adventures are.

Torah is light; it tells us the place of each thing. Shine it bright and heal the world.

Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened. Have you found any places where God would have felt at home? William asked me, looking down from his great height.

A departure can feel like a desertion, a judgement on the place and people left behind.

Though it was a comfort on occasion to play with the idea that outside this place a whole life waited for me, all the relationships that bind a man to the earth and give him a feeling of having a place.

Perhaps he had made Africa his subject because he had come to Africa and because he was a scholar, used to working with papers, and had found this place full of new papers.

I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you've never dreamed of going.

Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed the distress of that creature who, thanks to her, had been put back in her proper place, and congratulated herself. The happiness of the evil-minded is black.

The idea of it, of staying here and finding a good life and a place to belong, seduced her as nothing ever had.

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. —ANNA AKHMATOVA, FROM POEMS OF AKHMATOVA, TRANSLATED BY STANLEY KUNITZ, WITH MAX HAYWARD

Darkness cold isolation got inside him in a terrible way and turned him into one of the many wild animals that populate a place