Place Quotes
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
Frances Wright -
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Larry Flynt
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
Calvin Trillin -
Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
Laura Kightlinger -
'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
Pat Benatar -
A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer -
The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Alan Alda
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
Rafael dos Anjos -
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
Oliver Herford -
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville -
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
Garry Trudeau -
A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
Nancy Greene -
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
F. E. Smith -
I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
Walton Goggins -
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
Origen -
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
P. J. O'Rourke
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
Harold Pinter -
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Nancy Kress