Place Quotes

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

~ Chris Robinson

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

~ Mariah Carey

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

~ Marya Hornbacher

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

~ Amelia Barr

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

~ Frank Serpico

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

~ Aeschylus

We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.

~ Robert Reich

A hospital is no place to be sick.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.

~ George Pataki

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

~ Ernest Thompson Seton

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

~ Roger Rosenblatt

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

~ Henry James Sumner Maine

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

~ Marlene Dietrich

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

~ Erica Jong

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

~ Thomas À Kempis

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

~ Omar Bongo

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

~ Henry David Thoreau

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

~ Sloane Crosley

Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

~ Kerry Healey

Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.

~ Yusuf Hamied

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

~ Rob Wittman

I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

~ Bill Kurtis

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

~ Paul Theroux

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

~ Ben E. King

It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.

~ Hozier

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

~ Paul Theroux

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

~ William Bartram

White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.

~ Barbara Block

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

~ Felix Dennis

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

~ Joseph Campbell

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

~ Kendrick Lamar

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

~ Charles Barkley

A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.

~ Grant Show

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

~ John Landis

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

~ James Joyce

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

~ Adam Carolla

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

~ Nicholas Kristof

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

~ Ben Carson

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

~ Norman Foster