A Place Where Quotes

#1. College is just a place where they let you pay them to tell you things you should be getting paid to learn on the job. TRUE.
Don't take that teat, baby. That is a raw tittie. College is a red raw areola, and instead of milk it releases highly acidic French dressing.
"Ray's Place" 1/6/04

Chris Onstad

#2. When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.

Jessica Fechtor

#3. We learned the shocking truth that "home" isn't necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can "feel" at home, which means "free" to us.

Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#4. I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.

Dax Shepard

#5. The wilderness is a place where we can lean on God and trust His promises, but it's also a place to discover that the arms He provides and the ears that listen to our fears sometimes belong to flesh-and-blood people.

Lynn Austin

#6. I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.

Annie Lennox

#7. FCA is a place where young people, many of whom are unchurched, can come and hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Betsy King

#8. I hope,' muttered Jasper, 'we do not ever shop again at a place where vampires can buy clip-on bow ties. You would think with all of eternity in front of them, they could take the time to learn a simple knot.

M T Anderson

#9. Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

Debra Evans

#10. Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest.

Richard K. Morgan

#11. Path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.

John Crowley

#12. Hell is not a place of no hope, Thomas, but a place where tiny amounts of hope are allowed to flourish.

Simon Kurt Unsworth

#13. Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

Larry David

#14. I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

Adam McKay

#15. I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.

Heidi Klum

#16. We all need a place where we feel safe. A secret place that we like to think is ours.

Ingrid Nickelsen

#17. I don't have all answers, but as far as viewing my body ... I'm in a place where I can look at my stretch marks and say, 'Oh, hey, stretch marks!' and I'm over it.

Mary Lambert

#18. She'd been hired to protect him. But he'd come to a place where he'd do anything, give anything, risk anything to protect her.

Becky Wade

#19. 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

#20. For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

Bruce Springsteen

#21. In Greek, "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound". It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.

Don Draper

#22. Middle-earth, in other words, is a hauntingly luminous mirror image of our world. For we know that the world in which we live is a perilous place, a place where good and bad, light and dark, innocence and horror, glory and depravity march side by side and sleep back-to-back.

Kurt Bruner

#23. It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

Christopher Paolini

#24. To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn't bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself.

M.B. Dallocchio

#25. I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#26. We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it, in ways we've never had to do before. We now have the job of forging our own evolutionary destiny, and being prime agents of the process of evolution here on Earth.

Tom Atlee

#27. There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen

Maurice Sendak

#28. The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.

Conor McPherson

#29. Years ago this was just a place where I was assigned to work. Today looking at this place represents the opportunity that God allowed me to see the beauty of His works. The difference in then and now - I guess our views are a representative of our growth. Thankful.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#30. Paul is saying that he has reached a place where his ego draws no more attention to itself than any other part of his body. He has reached the place where he is not thinking about himself anymore. When he does something wrong or something good, he does not connect it to himself any more.

Timothy Keller

#31. I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

Anson Mount

#32. Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.

Winston S. Churchill

#33. 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

#34. I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.

Claire Denis

#35. The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn.

Stormie O'martian

#36. A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

Ron Rash

#37. I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.

Augustus Washington

#38. Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

Tahir Shah

#39. Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.

Paul Beatty

#40. Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it.

Gustave Flaubert

#41. The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

Peter Rollins

#42. Sometimes, we must face our fears and our enemies on their ground, a place where they appear stronger but if we are well prepared, nothing can stop us. Their turf or not, success will be ours.

Idowu Koyenikan

#43. The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.

Andrew Lansley

#44. And when you're eighteen years old, it doesn't take that much provoking to get you to a place where you can't stop yourself

Anthony Kiedis

#45. There is a place where words are born of silence.

Rumi

#46. There really is a place where kisses taste like apple pie and where stars spill like sugar across the sky.

Nina Lane

#47. I now realize this was out of fear: I feared that, like so many stones I have met, it would fail to dance. There was a small part of me that wanted the world to be a place where, despite planning officers and EU directives and policemen, a stone might dance. And

Terry Pratchett

#48. Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Robin S. Sharma

#49. I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

Kate Dickie

#50. Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Julia Ward Howe

#51. Gratitude is a powerful lens which, if we gaze through thoughtfully, we can come to a place where we are better able to understand ourselves.

Jacq Pollock

#52. I just like being in a place where there are lots of people playing. You might get to spend a minute, or collaborate.

Steve Kimock

#53. Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

Helen Hunt

#54. Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.

Gary Carter

#55. All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die ... Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.

Isaac Asimov

#56. He thought living in a place where there were eagles to watch might encourage some pretty good dreams.

Larry McMurtry

#57. A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Germaine Greer

#58. As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
No ... eight days a week.

Alan Bradley

#59. I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#60. The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#61. I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

Jane Fonda

#62. In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

Hillel The Elder

#63. Will tell you, for I am not sure if you properly understand as yet how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people.

Teresa Of Avila

#64. Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Ben Marcus

#65. A family is a place where a body can share the no-account things, can talk of the little matters important only to ourselves, where we can laugh and cry and tell of the day-by-day happenings and then forget them.

Louis L'Amour

#66. It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.

Tim Cope

#67. I'd like to hold you in the mountains, like to kiss you by the sea. Take you far, far from here to a place where you feel free. Cause we are safe, we are true, we are going to make it through. Crashing worlds, falling stars, breaking all of who we are- I want infinity with you.

Courtney C. Stevens

#68. We wanted proper outback: a place where men were men and sheep were nervous.

Bill Bryson

#69. PEACE DOES NOT MEAN TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO NOISE, TROUBLE, OR HARD WORK. PEACE MEANS TO BE IN THE MIDST OF ALL THOSE THINGS AND STILL BE CALM IN YOUR HEART. THAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF PEACE.

Various

#70. How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Libba Bray

#71. Hiro feels even at this moment that something has been torn open in the world and that he is dangling above the gap, staring into a place where he does not want to be.

Neal Stephenson

#72. Peace is a place where your heart is free to become the more beautiful you.

Bryant McGill

#73. Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

Mary E. Pearson

#74. A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."

James E. Myers

#75. This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

Phil Donahue

#76. And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.

Ben Edlund

#77. I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

Warwick Thornton

#78. I did work at Planned Parenthood between college and grad school. For me, anywhere that I worked or anywhere that I've come to know intimately is a great place to set a story because it's a place where you know all the details already, and you don't have to make them up; you can just borrow them.

Lauren Holmes

#79. I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

Henri Nouwen

#80. There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty
A place where every breath
carves your image
in my soul.
[465, translated by Jonathan Star, - In the Arms of the Beloved]

Rumi

#81. I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for my life 'cause you're a friend of mine

Leon Russell

#82. Football is not played with strong arms and fast feet, it's played with heart. Grow your heart and your arms and feet will follow ... You play long enough and you might find yourself in a place where your arms and feet fail you ... That's when you find out what's in your heart.

Charles Martin

#83. I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Tom Bissell

#84. Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#85. My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.

Cynthia Kadohata

#86. None of us know what will make you happy. That is a question you have to ask yourself. But what I can tell you for certain is that you will have to ask yourself and get to a place where the sound of your voice is the clearest voice in the room.

Gemma B. Benton

#87. It's remote! It's remote! It's uncontaminated! It's pure! It's a place where we can rule out that Muhammad got his ideas from others than God!

Patricia Crone

#88. There could not be a restoration of the gospel without freedom. God provided this country as the base of his operations in these the last days, a place where there would be freedom, where he could restore his gospel.

Ezra Taft Benson

#89. Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

M.F. Moonzajer

#90. Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.

Antonin Artaud

#91. If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.

Viggo Mortensen

#92. NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us.

Ann Coulter

#93. Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

R. Kelly

#94. Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded way more on the fiction side of the spectrum.

Michelle Madow

#95. There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime of life, a place that waits for us to stay and look inside that we might see the truth.

Cliff Robertson

#96. Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

Taylor Hicks

#97. I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

Alex Garland

#98. OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

Ambrose Bierce

#99. I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

Lusia Strus

#100. Chakra Meditation is designed to bring you back to neutrality, to a place of balance. You might call this "Zero Point", a place where you can begin again with a fresh, new mind.

Ilchi Lee