Quotes About Place

China is a travesty of a place, and you should thank God every day that you weren't born there.

Dallas is an extraordinary place in it's own right. The first thing about Dallas that you can't get away from, particularly when I arrived, you've got no idea of the heat in this place. It's over 100 degrees, and with that the humidity is ridiculous. I mean, people don't live here, armadillos live here.

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.

For me, it is always part of my holiday to go and work my way along the shelf in the local artisan bakery with its breads, savoury tartlets, pastries and cakes. It is soul food: one of those things that tells you about a place and the history of a place and its people.

The one thing in most communities, the staple is the basketball court. And when that looks good, I think the community feels good about itself, knowing that people care and have an opportunity to not only play there, but it's also a social meeting place.

I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.

We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

I'm staying at least a few days," George said. "I'm interested in this place." But what really interested George was Noah in this place. With these people. With that woman. The woman was perfect for him. She was one of the people—not some female bred to stand beside a man of the cloth. She would bring laughter, excitement and passion to his life, his work. *

Terrified to touch that emergency money she had stowed away, she was stretching her money as far as it would go—rent for Penny took the top position because she was certain the elderly darling needed it. Plus, she needed a place to live while she starved to death.

Accept the limitations of a place, in humility, and the joys that can also be found there may open themselves.

A place . . . a time . . . where a man can live his life full measure.

which has given Greeks their preeminent place in the modern world of shipping today

A belly button is good for only one thing: when you're lying in bed eating celery, it's a place to put the salt.

This fun visualisation and activity will help clients to focus on what they need still to put in place in their lives. It can be used as a contract for therapeutic

Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage near the sea, far removed from developers, removed from Lapham. And, there is always Vermont. For everyone, in every time of despairing optimism, there is always Vermont.

spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

La comicità ha una grande virtù: è un posto sicuro in cui ciò che è serio può rifugiarsi e sopravvivere.»

By "patriotism" I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people…

The only place I remember him complaining about was the Kingdome in Seattle, when the Mariners joined the American League in '77. But that was understandable. Everybody hated that place.

Some claim heaven has streets of gold and all such things, but I hold a different notion. When we're there, we'll say to the angels, why, a lot of heaven's glory was in the place we come from. And you know what them angels will say? They'll say yes, pilgrim, and how often did you notice? What did you seek?