Quotes About Place

When I left my family home and had finished university, I stayed in South London but moved closer to London's center, to Brixton and Herne Hill. Herne Hill is a tiny place that is ridiculously overstocked with lovely pubs.

You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.

There's a great joy in writing about a place you know very well, but there's also a lot of responsibility in trying to be accurate. It's a lot like writing about a relative: you can see both their strengths and their shortcomings, and even as you want to be honest, you want people to see the good that's there as well.

To be honest, all my career I've been at one number, I have my fighting weight, my happy place and that's 78kgs.

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.

What if a place could remember what had happened? What if a place could speak? What if that memory tripped us up in our daily lives?

At dinner, Mr. Marten produced his elegant place cards and assigned us places with the arbitrary ruthlessness of a dictator.

I had a moment of clarity, a moment when the world snapped into place like a dislocated joint back into its socket.

No one lies down in this place. Unless they're dead. When you're dead, you get to lie down and only after we've tried to resuscitate you.

The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there and other people don't. That's why the only solution to terrorism is for religious scholars to hold a global summit to agree on the definition of "holy place." Once they agree on a definition, it will be easier to mock it into submission.

the Egyptian capital remained a deeply exotic and mysterious place, unknowable in the way of all truly grand cities.

My thermograph got nothing," he said. "I think that place is deader than Bob Dole's dick.

That place is haunted, don't you know?

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.