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Quotes About Place

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.
~ Jodi Picoult
The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.
~ Jodi Picoult
Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
~ Jodi Picoult
SMILE, you deserve to no matter how bad your life is now, everything happens for a reason,think about the good things in life, go to your happy place...
~ Unknown
Don't even try to make this into something weird, Lori. We grew up in the same place, so get over your complex. Unless, of course, this is part of your fantasy. The asshole rich boy and the noble girl from the poor family." "F*ck off," she growled.
~ Unknown
Prayed to the Genius of the place.
~ Virgil
Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place;
~ W.H. Auden
The silence of a place where there were once horses is a mountain and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain once fell from the air ringing like the chime of an iron shoe...
~ W.S. Merwin
All through the dark the wind looks for the grief it belongs to but there was no place for that any more I have looked too and seen only the nameless hunger watching us out of the stars ancestor and the black fields —W.S. Merwin, "Night Wind" The Second Four Books of Poems . (Copper Canyon Press, 1992)
~ W.S. Merwin
Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.
~ William Donaldson
Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.
~ Viola Spolin
Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.
~ Dionne Brand
I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
~ Dale Earnhardt
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
~ Barry Lopez
The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.
~ bell hooks
The toughest place to play in the SEC is LSU, Death Valley. The fans there are relentless. They don't stop at all. They keep going.
~ Unknown
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
~ Unknown
The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.
~ Ed Wood
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to question the very place of the earth itself, safe at the center of the universe.
~ Philippa Gregory
All things swim and glitter. Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
~ Phillip Lopate
Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.
~ Rachel Caine
A disrespectful young woman, she said. Something I was called more than once. Something every woman of quality is called sooner or later, by a man who feels they do not know their place. As we do not, because our place is as lofty as we may aspire to climb. It is the language of men who fear women.
~ Rachel Caine
I'm good. And it's good to see you've kept up the tradition of getting the holy shit beat out of you,even when you're in a nice, civilized place.
~ Rachel Caine