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Quotes About Place

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
lo que es el marketing en esencia: el producto adecuado, en el lugar adecuado, al precio adecuado, con el mensaje adecuado, ofrecido por el equipo adecuado.
~ Jack Welch
I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.
~ Jacqueline Carey
we arrange to meet tomorrow. Same time. Same place. Same boy and girl. Same love story.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
And that's what we are all looking for, isn't it? A home. We're looking for where we belong.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
resembled photographs she had seen of Rudyard Kipling, when the newspapers published photographs of the author and his wife visiting the battlefields of northern France in search of their only son's final resting place.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
La cuestión de la arquitectura es de hecho el problema del lugar, de tener lugar en el espacio
~ Jacques Derrida
The world is a muddy place, and if good men don't try to clean it up, bad men will make it a swamp.
~ James A. Michener
Where is Winesooth?" she had asked Wiktor, and he had said rather sharply: "On the map, where else?" "But where on the map? Clearly, it's not on mine." "It's got to be," he snapped, grabbing the map from her, then jabbing at it with his finger. "Right there, where it should be." "But that says Lancut," she protested, and when Wiktor looked again at the map he repeated: "It's right here, where I said.
~ James A. Michener
About this time the custom arose of referring to the Eastern Shore with capital letters, as if it were a special place; this tribute was never paid the western shore.
~ James A. Michener
and the whole place looked tired and discouraged, as though wearily about to shave and get dressed for a terrible evening.
~ James Baldwin
there was about his elders an ease in the holy place, and a levity, that made his soul uneasy.
~ James Baldwin
Pulling away, I realized I had no place to go and nothing I wanted to do except satisfy my curiosity about a woman who was coming on like gangbusters and a big load of grief.
~ James Ellroy
A-Frame became an expression of creating a place where everyone would feel comfortable, even if you were made to feel uncomfortable in restaurants before. It's a place where I explored my own insecurities as far as being mistreated in restaurants or being given the worst table.
~ Roy Choi
There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.
~ Jodie Foster
The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.
~ Andy Dick
I never thought we were a country band in the first place. I think we've gotten ourselves into a place where we don't underestimate our listeners and what potential there is for the music they've heard all their lives.
~ Coy Bowles
The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin.
~ Isabel Gillies
The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.
~ Yiannis Stournaras
I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
We must understand the fans, they want to see goals. If I was in their place I'd want the same. It's understandable.
~ Tite
I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.
~ Josh Lucas
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.
~ Alberto Manguel
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
~ Jane Campion