Place Quotes

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.

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

I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place.

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

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.

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.