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Quotes About Place

Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.
~ Jennifer Egan
For a child that feels lost, confused and out of place, they need help.
~ Will Cain
I think that's why Sturgill and I worked so well together. We came from similar backgrounds as far as a sense of place. We were surrounded by the same culture. We listened to a lot of the same music growing up.
~ Tyler Childers
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
~ Yanni
If following your passion to a place where there's no pain probably isn't the business, I don't think an entrepreneur can sustain in a place where you don't have passion.
~ Scott Cook
We have the talent in place, and I think if you are a Jaguars fan, you should be excited, and you should have some expectations that we're going to be a sustainable, winning organization now.
~ Shahid Khan
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
~ Andrew Pyper
In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.
~ Rajkumar Hirani
While the rest of the class is hanging on every syllable that comes out of Mr. Landau's mouth, I'm looking at the false tongue poster and I'm kind of wishing it wasn't wrong. There's something nice about those thick black arrows: sour here, salty there, like there's a right place for everything. Instead of the total confusion the human tongue actually turns out to be.
~ Rebecca Stead
It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.
~ Rebecca West
Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.
~ Reggie McNeal
The world was still a turbulent and uncertain place. And there were serpents. But serpents still make the world a place for adventures , Rose reminded herself.
~ Regina Doman
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
~ Rene Dubos
He looked uncomfortable. He saw that a pencil on his desk was not in its proper place, and moved it, and studied it a while to decide if that was the best spot after all. At length he came back to me.
~ Rex Stout
How quickly life can change. Well, maybe it was time that it changed again. I was in a beautiful place, staying with a kind woman, and I was going to enjoy myself, whatever the outcome was.
~ Rhys Bowen
Excellent idea." I smiled at him. "Miss Honeywell should be amenable since I'm rushing to get the place cleared out. I'll ask her." "How long do you think you'll still be here?" Nigel asked. "I hope to be gone by the end of the week." I saw his face fall. "I see. Presumably you need to get back to work.
~ Rhys Bowen
La ausencia era eso. Un lugar que uno conoce y recuerda de memoria, como si fuera una foto, donde uno falta.
~ Ricardo Piglia
They portray not just figure anyone could imagine or desire, but the Christ of the Gospels as he seemed most closely to connect with believers in that time and place.
~ Richard Bauckham
The point is to fall into the rhythm of the place, the easygoing, relaxed atmosphere and just get a sense of the city, a feel for the city and its way of life.
~ Richard Bienvenu
Napoleon House is decidedly my favorite place in New Orleans. I've done a lot of travel overseas and this remains my favorite restaurant-bar in all the world.
~ Richard Bienvenu
all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.
~ Richard Brautigan
Light from above is virtuously Northern; it is also, as the last quotation suggests, celestial. Heaven had been seen as a place of light since around the twelfth century (McDannell and Lang 1988: 80ff.) Film
~ Richard Dyer
Monterey, as far as my observation goes, is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California.
~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Get action, do things; be sane," he once raved, "don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.
~ Richard Hofstadter