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Quotes About Place

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
~ Tadao Ando
When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.
~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.
~ Gabriel Macht
I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really awesome. That is more the work that I'm leaning towards doing.
~ Brett Gelman
I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
~ Sally Hawkins
I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
~ Calvin Johnson
In every city, I had my favorite place. In Baltimore, it was Sabatino's.
~ Bruno Sammartino
You don't hear about tradition in the NFL, but we have a tradition in Baltimore. It was just an awesome place to be.
~ Ed Reed
Barcelona is the best club in the world, there's no other place like this.
~ Pedro
Sendai is the place that helped me build my basement.
~ Shinji Kagawa
To some extent I'm always looking to see where I belong.
~ Lesley Sharp
Feeling they were being treated as inferiors by the West, and suffering from American and European racism, the Japanese concluded that they had to make their own place in the world, using force to pursue the manifest destiny of the `imperial way'.
~ Jonathan Fenby
The traveler didn't see how such a place could exist in a world of Lithuanias and Polands. It was a testament to the insulatory effectiveness of political boundaries that power didn't simply arc across the gap between such divergent economic voltages.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. - The Library of Babel
~ Jorge Borges
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you wanted reflections on the nature of the universe and your place in it, you should have stayed in school. You want fart noises and cock jokes, I'm your man.
~ A.J. Hartley
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
~ Abdullah Ibrahim
The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river's deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
~ Aberjhani
I believe that geography is destiny
~ Abraham Verghese
The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.
~ Adam Nicolson
He knows a place. I like that. It's refreshing to meet a man who has ideas about what we should do and where we should
~ Adele Parks
He knows a place. I like that. It's refreshing to meet a man who has ideas about what we should do and where we should go.
~ Adele Parks
Love was the most interesting place to go, and beauty was the ticket.
~ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
~ Nick Woodman