Place Quotes

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

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

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.