Top 100 Place To Be Quotes
#1. Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see,
This world is such a great and a funny place to be.
Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor,
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
Woody Guthrie
#2. I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
Brian Eno
#3. Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all ... who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.
Ann Hasseltine Judson
#4. At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
Patrick Stewart
#5. No greater place to be than in a leadership position to lead young minds to prosperity
Darrius Garrett
#6. You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.
Bryan Clay
#7. I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in when you're like: 'What am I supposed to write about now? I don't feel heartbroken, so now what?'
Jenny Lewis
#8. The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#9. Best place to be?" Adrienne asks after a moment.
On the other side of this wall. In my bed, at home. Anywhere with Nathaniel.
"Before," I answer, because I know she'll understand.
Jodi Picoult
#10. A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
Alan Rickman
#11. 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
#12. South Carolina is a great place to be from.
Tim Scott
#13. Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.
Neville Southall
#14. There's a wild that's fucked and there's a wild that's just, plain wild. You just hooked yourself to a different kind of wild, Tess, and I swear, baby, swear," his arms squeezed before he finished, "I'll show you that's a good, safe place to be.
Kristen Ashley
#15. I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
Vik Muniz
#16. 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
#17. I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.
Philip Yancey
#18. I decided it was the perfect place to be if you wanted to go crazy but had a limited amount of time to do it in.
Jeaniene Frost
#19. The darkness is no place to be in times like this.
Celia Mcmahon
#20. Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.
Javier Marias
#21. Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.
Donna Lynn Hope
#22. Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
Bono
#23. When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#24. When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry
#25. Auschwitz was a much safer place to be than Dresden or any other city of any size in Germany from 1943 onward.
Michael Hoffman
#26. I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.
Julian Schnabel
#27. L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.
Joe Perry
#28. Everything has become very conventional. You're either in or you're out. I'm with the out- with the weird, the impossible, the victimised and the broken. It's the only place to be.
Hanif Kureishi
#29. When I'm wasted, I can almost forget who I am," he said, his smile fading slightly. "I know I'm still there, but only barely. It's a good place to be." He tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead
Becca Fitzpatrick
#30. From my perspective, Chinatown was not a place to be feared at all; rather, it was a place to be revered, a place that needed to be protected from outsiders.
Allen Gee
#31. If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.
Eric Nicol
#32. I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#33. For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
Cai Guo-Qiang
#34. 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
#35. When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.
Helmut Jahn
#36. Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young, the wilderness offered not only adventure but also therapy and peace: a place to be alone with your thoughts.
Jennifer Pharr Davis
#37. My mind is a dangerous place to be alone without supervision.
Caroline Burau
#38. I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
Tom Waits
#39. 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
#40. He knew he was in there. He knew why. He knew that was his place to be. Because he knew he deserved to be there.
Kristen Ashley
#41. Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.
Gary Kemp
#42. I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.
Chuck Palahniuk
#43. 'The Paris Review' was always the pinnacle: it was the place to be published. You were thrilled if you were published in 'The Paris Review,' and George Plimpton himself was practically mythical. He was a legendary figure.
James Salter
#45. When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.
Harry Chapin
#46. Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely. It is to erase yourself. This is what I refused to do.
Nayomi Munaweera
#47. Connor bangs his head back sharply against the wall, hoping to jar loose the bad thoughts clinging to his brain. This is not a good place to be alone with your thoughts. Perhaps that's why Hayden feels compelled to talk.
Neal Shusterman
#49. I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.
Edwin Catmull
#50. There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.
Eugene H. Peterson
#51. I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.
Joan Allen
#52. I would love this place to be my garden.
(on Arsenal's old stadium)
Thierry Henry
#53. Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.
Lauren Collins
#54. Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.
Ryan Kavanaugh
#55. It takes a Mother's Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.
Helen Steiner Rice
#57. I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
Nicholas Lea
#58. It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.
Wes Craven
#59. Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.
Pauley Perrette
#60. It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.
Regina King
#61. When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
Cate Blanchett
#63. Even a superhero needs a place to be normal.
Kim Harrison
#64. I love dipping into dreams and sinuously sinking into sleep. It's the freest place to be. The possibilities are limitless and my imagination becomes a weightless wonder.
Jaeda DeWalt
#65. For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.
Joe Perry
#67. I want to encourage you today: needy is a beautiful place to be. When we recognize our need, we will finally look around for something (or someone) to fill it.
Emily P. Freeman
#68. Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#69. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#70. Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.
Toni Morrison
#71. After a while Estevan said, What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere.
Barbara Kingsolver
#72. One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
Tananarive Due
#73. Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I'm always looking for the next place to be.
Tracie Peterson
#74. The USA is a hazardous place to be a radiation researcher.
Steven Magee
#75. Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
Ian McLeod
#76. My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#77. It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Neil Armstrong
#78. I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.
Andrew Lansley
#79. I generally have one or two drinks. I hang out in the dressing room, and it's not always the most attractive place to be, so just being able to have a drink is nice.
Martina Sorbara
#80. I left London to migrate to Manchester because at that time it was -- if you had a personality disorder and a good record collection -- the most interesting place to be in the world.
James Maker
#81. How about those Olympics, ladies and gentlemen. Didn't London look like the place to be? New York City was in the running for this Olympics. But here's what happened. We got outbribed.
David Letterman
#82. I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.
Christina Aguilera
#83. Sometimes the loneliest place to be is in love.
Lang Leav
#84. I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.
Jake McDorman
#85. I've seen UFOs, and Loch Ness - I've been to Loch Ness a few times looking for Nessie, and that's also a beautiful place to be.
Rhys Darby
#86. No one is on this road, she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn't the place to be at three o'clock on a summer afternoon. Everyone but us.
V.S. Kemanis
#87. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
Chuck Palahniuk
#88. As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
Bong Joon-ho
#90. When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.
Alison Pill
#91. I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
Kat Dennings
#92. When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
Hans Zimmer
#93. The best place to be when trouble breaks out... is somewhere else.
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#94. The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
Billy Corgan
#95. I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
F. Lee Bailey
#96. I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere.
I mean ... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.
Sophie Kinsella
#97. I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!
Stephen Richards
#98. I used to be afraid of the dark. But sometimes, it's the best place to be. Sometimes you can see things in the dark that you can't see in the light.
Billie Letts
#99. Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.
Tony Robbins
#100. I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.
Kristanna Loken
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