Quotes About Place

America, there is not a place I can wander inside you and not feel a little afraid.

I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.

Jack ran a hand through his hair and said, 'What I need is more coffee. Ianto!' 'A man's work is never done in Torchwood,' said Ianto, peeling off his rubber gloves. 'If you want coffee on demand, you'll have to stop mucking the place up first.' 'Get to it before I put you over my knee.' Jack grinned at him.

Baby," Cricket said to the egg. "Small dragon. This would be a VERY SILLY place and time to hatch. Do not do it." A claw poked straight through the crack and wiggled gleefully at her.

Our choices are what make us good or evil – what we do, how we help or hurt the world. You make the world a better place by being in it. With or without magic, that's always been true.

The gold tracery in the rocks and floor went over the top in here, as if a giant dragon had stumbled around the room vomiting gold all over the place.

Like any romantic, I had always been vaguely certain that sometime during my life I should come into a magic place which in disclosing its secrets would give me wisdom and ecstasy-perhaps even death.

Ah, but LSU is a very intoxicating place-- and I'm not talking about the alcohol that flows so freely there on a Saturday night.

When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be at home.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, I went there---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- and it wasn't like that. I say, Because I am not you.

fellow paddler—a Malawian, who knew this stretch of the river well—pointed to a reach in the stream ahead, a bank of mud huts partly hidden by tall reeds, and said, "There are bad people in that place"—a place we could not avoid passing.

lumbar spine is held in place isometrically by the transversus abdominis and multifidus muscles; if these muscles

It feels like my soul is slowly leaving my body and heading off to an unknown place, some safe place where it doesn't have to put up with me and my night terrors.

Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.

If you have to take a stand, home's the best place to do it," he said, and his voice was as soothing as the music.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

There's an argument that maybe [The Grinder] was better suited for streaming or cable. I don't know. I still like to think there's a place for smart, subversive, original comedies on networks.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Geography is the art of the mappable.

In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.