Quotes About Place

The over-ripe, golden autumn which had taken hold of the town tugged at our heartstrings. The nomadic life makes you sensitive to the seasons: you rely on them, even become part of the season itself, and each time they change, it seems to have to tear yourself away from a place where you have learned to live.

full of rage at a world which seemed all wrong to her and dreaming about someplace where she would belong, really belong.

Such a beauty, such divine features—and where, in what place!…" That was all he was able to utter.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

Totul este bun, dar nu pretutindeni, dar nu oricând, dar nu pentru to?i.

Earth is a big place. Even if parts of it are uninhabitable, it's still a damn big place.

And what a stroke of luck that such a book had fallen into the hands of such a person in such a place.

The fine art is about asking questions and how we understand our world and our place in it.

Nos vies sont les mêmes. Nos vies se débattent, crient dans la nuit, hurlent et tremblent de peur. Infiniment nous cherchons un abri. Un lieu où le vent siffle moins fort. Un endroit où aller. Et cet abri est un visage, et ce visage nous suffit.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

because the rest of the relics in the place lurched toward me then, like some nursing-home theater guild performing Night of the Living Dead.

Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning. Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! Beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

Well you're a real tough cookie with a long history Of breaking little hearts like the one in me Before I put another notch in my lipstick case You better make sure you put me in my place

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

As for other mischief—my song has claimed this place for now. No evil may enter without invitation. They cannot come in." He glanced beyond us, behind Adam and me, toward the basement. "Not for a while.

I think some people are lucky to be so fond of a place they are going back to. But it's not lucky if they let that blind them to the place they find themselves

To put human-made objects in their proper place as tools, we must learn the art of contentment.

There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

Thus his music has gone, as he says, 'from being about place to becoming place.'55 In doing so, it has fulfilled his wish in the semantic meaning of enchantment, 'to be in a song': 'I no longer want to be outside the music, listening to it as an object apart. I want to inhabit the music, to be fully present and listening …'56

Life was too heavy on her feet in that place to leap dramatically when something apparently exciting happened.

Le dimanche soir, quelques personnes se réunissaient dans l'appartement de Martine Hayward, et moi je me trouvais parmi ces gens-là. J'avais vingt ans et je ne me sentais pas tout à fait à ma place.