Top 100 Great Place Quotes
#1. The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!
Seth Godin
#2. 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
#3. I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.
Eric Garcetti
#4. I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.
Bob Hope
#5. California is a great place to live if you're an orange.
Fred Allen
#6. The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics!
Keith Thibodeaux
#7. Its so painful to think, and tell me what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever get me?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#8. I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.
Lee Daniels
#9. Will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?"
"The mirror's a great place to start
Rachel Caine
#10. Nathan Deal brings the experience, maturity and track record to ensure that Georgia continues to be a great place to live, work and raise a family. That's why he has my support for a second term as governor of this great state.
Karen Handel
#11. A great place to work is one in which you trust the people you work for, have pride in what you do, and enjoy the people you work with.
Robert Levering
#13. You can take the boy out of Philly but not the Philly out of the boy. It shapes my world view. It was a great place to grow up.
Steve Capus
#14. Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you're thinking before you've had a chance to think about it.
Chris Pirillo
#15. I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
Park Chan-wook
#16. Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit.
Robinson Cano
#18. What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
Emir Kusturica
#19. I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
Sarah McLachlan
#20. Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Francis Bacon
#21. I admire this town a lot. They take care of their own. There's not a lot of places in the world, much less America, that do that. It's just a great place.
Justin Timberlake
#22. I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
Damon Albarn
#23. It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
Ray Bradbury
#24. I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live.
Thomas Dooley
#25. The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
#27. No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.
Gin Wigmore
#28. L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London.
Suki Waterhouse
#29. I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding the subways of New York City, where I live.
Andrea Davis Pinkney
#30. Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.
David Wain
#31. It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
Eduardo Paes
#32. Although I don't live there anymore, Scotland is a great place for the people coming over to visit and to tour around the Highlands, because it is a very magical place.
James Cosmo
#33. I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.
Tommy Tune
#34. We're proud of Venezuela and Venezuelan baseball. People in America don't realize it, but we've got 25, 30 million people here, and so many of us love baseball. This is a great place to look for talent.
Johan Santana
#35. And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
Jimmy Buffett
#36. You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.
Jim Palmer
#37. There's so much to be grateful for, and praising God for giving you His Spirit is a great place to begin.
Even if you don't think you have much to be grateful for right now, know that you can always praise God for the Holy Spirit's presence in your life!
Stormie O'martian
#38. Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
Ian McLeod
#39. There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.
Stephen Collins
#40. Besides finding a great place to stay, it's important for me to find at least one cultural destination to visit, other than that, I don't like to plan too much. I like to suss out the situation when I get on the ground and then go!
Megalyn Echikunwoke
#41. If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those fans, Ill always remember. But Im also going to another great place. Im going to a phenomenal city with great tradition as well, phenomenal fans, great organization.
Nomar Garciaparra
#42. Concord, California was a great place to grow up.
Dave Brubeck
#43. Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#44. Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees that when they get to high school they'll love detention because it's a great place to sleep.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#45. I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
Rachel Kushner
#46. When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
Philip Roth
#47. It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. Henry
#48. Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.
Dick Vitale
#49. I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.
Kaitlyn Dever
#50. Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
Pat Burns
#51. That is all God wants from us! To be happy. Go, create, laugh, love, and above all, be happy! No matter what anyone tells you, you have the ability to change your world! Make it a great place to live in! God loves you! Exactly the way that you are!
Kenneth Griffin Jr.
#52. A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.
Charles Handy
#53. America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot,
Eric Stonestreet
#54. Florida wants to change the state's motto to attract younger people. They're thinking about: More than just a great place to die.
Joan Rivers
#55. I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.
Allan Gurganus
#56. If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.
Joan Dye Gussow
#57. America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.
Charles P. Pierce
#58. I'm happily married, but supposedly the grocery store is a great place for singles to meet. I'm not sure how this works. I see you got the Charmin there in your cart. It really is more absorbent. Wanna grab a cup of coffee?
Jim Gaffigan
#59. Florida is a great place to set a novel.
John Lutz
#60. On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
Marilyn C. Nelson
#61. If I moved back, I'm sure I'd find some great place to live. I wouldn't have to make a reservation to take a spin class or wait in line just to get into the grocery store. But then I'd look up one day and be like, 'What the fuck have I done?'
Curtis Sittenfeld
#62. Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.
Anatoly Karpov
#63. The man in her dream would ride up and surprise her on his horse ... saying her beauty pierced such a great place in his heart.
Kaye Gibbons
#64. The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.
Aaron Peirsol
#65. New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck. Yes, on the DEA's website you can buy a rubber ducky with a DEA badge and a cop's hat. Which I recommend doing, because they're a great place to hide your weed.
Bill Maher
#66. It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!
Greg Bear
#67. We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.
Jonathan Brown
#68. If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.
Calvin Jillson
#69. I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.
Oprah Winfrey
#70. Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.
Yolanda Adams
#71. I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.
Greg Smith
#72. We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.
Sharron Angle
#73. Our nation Nigeria CAN & MUST become a great place to live, otherwise we will have to answer to more than just the next generation
Fela Durotoye
#74. I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.
Nicki Minaj
#75. South Carolina is a great place to be from.
Tim Scott
#76. New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.
Robert De Niro
#77. L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.
Rachel Kushner
#78. I'm not a network executive, but it seems to be a time when networks take more of a gamble with higher-concept shows. And so, it's fun to be on something that's original, that's finding viewership, that's finding a great audience, and really distinguishing itself. Summer's a great place to do that.
James Wolk
#79. Overweight people have chosen food over appearance. When a fat person talks about a great place to get a burger, I lean in. They know.
Jim Gaffigan
#80. New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.
Justin Tuck
#81. When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!
Jamie Oliver
#82. New York is a great place to feel inspired all the time.
Dave Gahan
#83. Show business is a great place to fail upward ... and I guess that's what I've done.
Kurt Fuller
#85. I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'
Robert Crandall
#86. It was a great place to run red lights, which I count as a fine recreational activity.
Tim Cahill
#87. As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.
Rob Wittman
#88. Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
Malcolm McLaren
#89. Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It's so close, which is perfect because it's the minimal travel time.
Hilary Rhoda
#90. I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
Kacey Musgraves
#91. people can take you to a great place, but God takes you to the best place.
Mariam
#92. I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
Biz Stone
#93. Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.
Chris Tucker
#94. I don't like bad mouthing towns and just thinking that I live in such a great place. I mean, I would hate to live in a small town and have a public persona say, "That town sucks." I would really not want to hear that.
Carlos Dengler
#95. The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
Jackie Earle Haley
#96. In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#97. Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.
Ruth Ozeki
#98. Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.
Jackie Gayle
#99. New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
Queen Latifah
#100. I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.
Toby Stephens
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