Place Quotes

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

True change takes place in the imagination.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

The bandstand is a sacred place.

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

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

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

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.