Quotes About Place

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

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

Was that suit made to order? Where were you at the time?

The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.

The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.

Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

The only wonder was that he should be in an under situation and not in the place of a head coachman like York;

And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.

You no doubt want to hear what I think of being in hiding. Well, all I can say is that I don't really know yet. I don't think I'll ever feel at home in this house, but that doesn't mean I hate it. It's more like being on vacation in some strange pension. Kind of an odd way to look at life in hiding, but that's how things are. The Annex is an ideal place to hide in.

Where inside them does awe arise? Soul is a place- the innermost Russian nesting doll.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible.

Rain in a foreign city is different from rain in a place you know. I can't explain this, while snow is the same everywhere.

Who else would live in such an unguarded place except a woman for whom the forest was the world, he figured. And what a gentle child of that world she seemed. But oh so foolishly trusting. Way too trusting.