Place Quotes
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Rachel Cusk -
Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
Edd Roush
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The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
Nancy Gibbs -
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
Edan Lepucki -
More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
Zac Goldsmith -
But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
Vernon Jordan -
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
Edd Roush -
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.
W. G. Sebald -
I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
Ed Harris -
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]
Michael D. Barnes -
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
Orhan Pamuk -
Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
Eden Hazard
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark Twain -
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
Camilo Villegas -
The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
Michel Foucault -
I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
Larry David
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
Larry Craig -
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. Liebling -
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken -
I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
Naftali Bennett