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Quotes About Place

For me, Google was the coolest place. It was the coolest place. People there were so smart. And they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt lucky to be part of it even in a small way.
~ Ben Silbermann
We want to be the best place on the Internet. That's where the focus is at.
~ Alan Schaaf
You can't read Proust at the Laundromat.
~ Eve Babitz
It must have been marvelous when the century was young and things impressed themselves in such blatant vivid brilliance that an approaching fire under a starry sky could illuminate, even to a Crimean actress, this sense of "place" – that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.
~ Eve Babitz
At least the Château Marmont kept looking as if when you entered a room you might be in Tangiers when you left. But then, my friends are the type who love Tangiers, and I've always been afraid if I went to the actual place, I'd never come back.
~ Eve Babitz
there was no point in owning anything in L.A. . . . in this she had a curious premonition or grasp of 'place.
~ Eve Babitz
And he treated me with a chivalrous masculine know-how that I sopped up like a person who'd never heard of how chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.
~ Eve Babitz
chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.
~ Eve Babitz
Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity I say pull down Learn of the green-world what can be thy place
~ Ezra Pound
There could not be a restoration of the gospel without freedom. God provided this country as the base of his operations in these the last days, a place where there would be freedom, where he could restore his gospel.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great art has nationality, an imprimatur achieved with the keenest remembrance of time and place.
~ F. Sionil Jose
But that was just part of it. Some force was sucking him into this place. He knew he'd be returning here in a professional capacity. And that worried him.
~ Faye Kellerman
Philologists assure us that ?ulm in Arabic originally meant "to put something out of its proper place," so that all wrong of any kind is injustice, i.e., an injustice against the agent himself) is, therefore, a very common term in the Qur'?n, with its clear idea that all injustice is basically reflexive.
~ Fazlur Rahman
But now that I am in love with a place which doesn't care how I look, or if I'm happy, happy is how I look
~ Fleur Adcock
The Texas Rangers," he said softly, "are dead. All six of them have gone. In their place there's just one man. The lone Ranger." He
~ Fran Striker
Song for the Puberty Rite of a Girl Named Cowaka: A poor man takes the songs in his hand And drops them near the place where the sun sets. See, Cowaka, run to them and take them in your hand, And place them under the sunset.
~ Frances Densmore
And in any case, he felt the strangest sense that this place was his. The sun had been waiting and keeping it warm for him.
~ Frances Hardinge
Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.
~ Frances Mayes
Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.
~ Frances Mayes
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
~ Billy Crystal
The only place we can find a clear, i unmistakable message is in the Word of God [the Bible].
~ Billy Graham
As the people came to a desert place to hear John the Baptist proclaim, "Thus saith the Lord," so [man] in his confusions, frustrations, and bewilderment will come to hear the minister who preaches with authority.
~ Billy Graham
Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!
~ Billy Graham
Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.
~ Billy Graham