Place Quotes

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

~ Jean Nouvel

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

~ Dennis Conner

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

~ Rowan Williams

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

~ Helen Gahagan

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

~ Roy Acuff

I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.

~ Kirk Cameron

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

~ Alice Sebold

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

~ Carolus Linnaeus

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.

~ Brooke Burke

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

~ Tadao Ando

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

~ Richard Dawkins

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

~ Annie Lennox

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

~ Natasha Lyonne

My imagination is a twisted place.

~ Taylor Swift

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

~ Stephen King

True change takes place in the imagination.

~ Unknown

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

~ John Irving

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

~ Ice-T

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

~ Virginia Postrel

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

~ Rose George

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

~ Fernando Botero

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

~ Bernie Sanders

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

~ Gore Vidal

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

~ Peggy Noonan

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

~ Théophile Gautier

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

~ William S. Burroughs

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

~ Nick Nolte

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

~ Mallory Ortberg

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

~ J. B. Pritzker

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

~ Jeremy Rifkin

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

~ John W. Thompson

Technology makes the world a new place.

~ Shoshana Zuboff

I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.

~ Nadia Comaneci

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

~ Thomas Paine

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

~ Confucius

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

~ Robert Orben

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

~ Lawrence Lessig

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

~ Bob Hope