Quotes About Place

The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms. Whatever the outcome there was a place for him in that battle." This was the belief of Guy Crouchback in 1939 when he heard the news of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty. What follows is the story of his attempt to find his "place in that battle.

One autumn night, years before, they came to a place where the moonlight stopped and change was among the stars.

When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different: I never learn to learn.

To say there is a time and a place for everything is trite, but the truth of the sentiment is not to be denied for all that; one could play the accordion while having a bath but probably nobody has ever tried to do that.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

With the energy he had conserved yesterday letting her dress him, he had written a note and pinned it in his pocket. IF FOUND DEAD SHIP EXPRESS COLLECT TO COLEMAN PARRUM, CORINTH, GEORGIA. Under this he had continued: COLEMAN SELL MY BELONGINGS AND PAY THE FREIGHT ON ME & THE UNDERTAKER. ANYTHING LEFT OVER YOU CAN KEEP. YOURS TRULY T. C. TANNER. P.S. STAY WHERE YOU ARE. DON'T LET THEM TALK YOU INTO COMING UP HERE. ITS NO KIND OF PLACE.

A fat yellow moon appeared in the branches of the fig tree as if it were going to roost there with the chickens. He said that a man had to escape to the country to see the world whole and that he wished he lived in a desolate place like this where he could see the sun go down every evening like God made it to do.

He said that a man had to escape to the country to see the world whole and that he wished he lived in a desolate place like this where he could see the sun go down every evening like God made it to do.

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.

I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.

My favorite place in the world is L.A. It's my home.

Dublin is one of my favourite cities. It's an absolutely amazing place.

Cornwall is my favourite place - I wish I could earn a living there.

London's my favourite place. I lived in Crouch End for years and come back as much as I possibly can.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.

Sometimes casting falls in place easily and sometimes it takes a while. Fifty per cent of my job is done when I get the right actors.

Kerber is an incredible fighter. She redirects her shots. She can hit any shot at any time in any specific place whenever she wants.

I really like Bellator and them as a company and how they are run. It's a popular place for fighters to go to.

A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

I have a running conversation with a couple of colleagues. Mike Schmidt's one of them; some on my White House team are others; Alex Burns on the politics team is another. That just helps me not lose my place, right? We're just constantly talking about what we're hearing and where things are.