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Quotes About Place

Machado de Assis is a kind of miracle, another demonstration of the autonomy of literary genius in regard to time and place, politics and religion.
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
No foreign sky protected me,no stranger's wing shielded my face.I stand as witness to the common lot,survivor of that time, that place.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Here Naples was not bathed by the sea. I was sure that no one had ever seen this place or remembered it. In this dark pit only the fire of sexuality burned bright under an eerie black sky.
~ Anna Maria Ortese
What did you do to Zuulaman ?" "Zuulaman ? That's a word without meaning." "It's a place, as you very well know." Saetan shook his head. "It doesn't exist.
~ Anne Bishop
If men could not control it or rule over it, a thing had no place in the world.
~ Anne Bishop
I think we've come home.
~ Anne Bishop
I: Dreams give us more than we ask M: I'm not talking about dreams no one's dreams are of any use to anyone else I: Why M: They are merely experiments an experimental surface I: But surely that involves at least let's say an organizing effort M: Nothing takes place but the place I: Are you serious M: Just a telephone ringing in an empty house I: Why not answer it
~ Anne Carson
Soul is the place, stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, where such necessity grinds itself out.
~ Anne Carson
unlike in the United States, there can be no place in Russia for a free market in religious life.
~ Anne Garrels
For this is what the high and lofty One says — he who lives forever, whose name is holy: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite." ISAIAH 57:15
~ Anne Graham Lotz
Further, I must not dream for when I do I see the table set and a faltering crone at my place, her eyes burnt by cigarettes as she eats betrayal like a slice of meat.
~ Anne Sexton
The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place.
~ Anne Ursu
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
~ Annie Leibovitz
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
~ Annie Leibovitz
If you can play at a higher level, it's great. But Melbourne City, the club's growing, it's got everything now with the facilities and the professionalism here is first class so it's not a bad place to be at all.
~ Aaron Mooy
In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.
~ Robert Robinson
Hollywood's not a progressive place. Everyone likes to think that Hollywood is hip, but it's not hip at all.
~ Sinbad
I knew San Francisco when it was a wild place during Prohibition. There were more speakeasies than churches, and you could always get a drink.
~ Jackie Coogan
Sometimes you can trust and hope that everything is going to be rosy and God doesn't promise that. He promises that He's got our backs and He's prepared a place for us.
~ Mike Fisher
We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.
~ Jon Brion
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
~ Brian Eno
The Constitution protects our right to peacefully protest injustices, but violence has no place in our civic discourse.
~ Ronny Jackson
We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.
~ Alex Stamos
I rejoiced in the Burgundy. It seemed a reminder that the world was an older and better place than Rex knew, that mankind in its long passion had learned another wisdom than his.
~ Evelyn Waugh