Top 100 Place You Quotes
#1. You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
Tadao Ando
#2. This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.
Daniel Handler
#3. Sometimes, Harold, the way forward takes you by surprise. You try to force something in the familiar direction and discover that what it needs is to move in a different dimension. The way forward is not forward, but off to one side, in a place you have not noticed before.
Rachel Joyce
#4. South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing.
Russell Crowe
#5. you leave
but you don't stay gone
why do you do that
why do you
abandon the thing you want to keep
why do you linger
in a place you do not want to stay
why do you think it's okay to do both
go and return all at once
Rupi Kaur
#6. Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?"
"I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says.
"And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.
Erin Morgenstern
#7. Edward Snowden gave a little press conference today. He is apparently seeking temporary asylum in Russia. Because, you know, when you're tired of the government snooping into everything you do, Putin's Russia is definitely the place you want to go.
Bill Maher
#8. All you have is your fire
And the place you need to reach
Don't you ever tame your demons
But always keep them on a leash
Hozier
#9. THE SAFEST PLACE YOU COULD BE IS BESIDE ME. KANAME
Matsuri Hino
#10. All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.'
Rosario Dawson
#11. I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it's a better place. You get a bunch of very intelligent people sitting around trying to do good, I immediately get kind of suspicious and squirm in my seat.
Charlie Munger
#12. What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.
Paul Theroux
#14. What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.
Thomas Pynchon
#15. I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.
Richie Havens
#16. To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can't really multitask reading a book.
Jonathan Franzen
#17. Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.
Lisa Gerrard
#18. You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.
A. Powell Davies
#19. I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.
Jeremy Thomas
#20. The place where you came from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you are now - inside your daddy's house - is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time. You know that and always did know it. You hear me?
Joyce Carol Oates
#21. Home is not only the place you start from, but the place you come back to...where dreams are sustained, hurts healed, where our stories are told.
Robert M. Hamma
#22. Another time, another place, I'd back you to that wall right there, or any place you wanted to go, and do everything in my power to wipe him from your mind.
Jennifer St. Giles
#23. To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.
Lynne McTaggart
#24. Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
Ritchie Blackmore
#25. A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.
Jedediah Berry
#26. Any place you love is the world to you.
Oscar Wilde
#27. Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. - WAYNE DYER
Gabrielle Bernstein
#28. There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#29. Your comfort zone may be more like a cage you can't escape from than a safe place you can retreat to.
Chris Guillebeau
#30. There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.
Melanie Griffith
#31. You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.
Nick Littlemore
#32. I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway) I don't want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. There's a place you can get to. It's hard to find and it's easy to fall out of, but there it is, that place. It is the sweetest place you've never been and it's called I Don't Give a Crap. Book yourself a ticket.
William Lashner
#34. Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.
Chris Frantz
#35. But even if the captain rewrites his own history, how could it affect your reality? I'm from a place you call a fairy tale, and I'm still here."
"But . . . the Vaadi Al-Maas was real once. People believed in it."
"I believe in you. Simple enough, right?" His smile was heartbreaking.
Heidi Heilig
#36. A good place can always be found in a place you think there is pain.
Auliq Ice
#37. Every place you have ever imagined is real.
There's a fictional city in your mind and you know every corner of it.
Your mind is a world and each of us is a place.
Unknown
#38. The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
Wyclef Jean
#39. Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell
#40. I frowned, gaping at the blond in disbelief. "You're the grim reaper?"
Tod glanced at me for the first time, his frown practically etched into place. "You were
expecting someone older? Taller? Maybe kind of gaunt and skeletal?"Contempt dripped from his words like acid.
Rachel Vincent
#41. Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.
Mark McGrath
#42. Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.
Joe Harris
#43. If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send ... and you must live.
Park Gye-Ok
#44. If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.
Steve Carell
#45. You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place - you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.
Bernard Malamud
#46. He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.
Orson Scott Card
#47. What does this mean? Simply that to make DNA, you have to have DNA in the first place! You have to have the DNA code within the cell before you can make more DNA code. Without the complete code in the first place, there is no way to make the code necessary for every living cell!
Lawrence O. Richards
#49. If your mind and heart are in the same place, you can do whatever you want.
Adrienne Woods
#51. I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.
John Green
#52. Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you.
Mike Birbiglia
#53. No one is going to give it to you. Spend everyday getting better and focus on that which you can control, let everything else fall into place. You can't stay focused on what you can get from success, but rather focus on becoming successful!
Rob Dyrdek
#54. It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place. You hoped to know Ellington Feinr forever, but there's no such thing as forever, really. Everything is much shorter than that.
Lemony Snicket
#55. Embrace every challenge you have, every person you meet, every place you visit, every task you succeed at, and especially those at which you fail. You will learn from them all. You'll learn about the world at large and about other people but most important, you'll learn about yourself.
Richie Sambora
#56. any place you don't want to be is a prison.
Ajahn Brahm
#57. Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.
Brian Viglione
#58. The first kiss is never just a kiss but a beautiful place you get to go only once.
Colin Tegerdine
#59. A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
E.L. Doctorow
#60. Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#61. I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives
David Malouf
#62. Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.
Christine Caine
#63. The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around ... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
Laura Marano
#64. Having people be impressed with a house is not a compliment. You don't want them to say, 'What a place!' You want them to sit down and enjoy it.
Robert Denning
#65. Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.
Mehmed The Conqueror
#66. God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.
Chloe M. Gooden
#67. It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can't do?
Monica Johnson
#68. What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'
Cush Jumbo
#69. Get your mind unbound and free; and then from the loosest, highest, best place you have, with the fastest and most humorous mind you can get together, you can reach out and make a try at understanding Spirit.
Stephen Gaskin
#70. The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.
Dennis Prager
#71. There's nowhere you can aggregate more people in one fell swoop than a broadcast network; there's no place you can build a star quicker than you can on a broadcast network.
Jon Feltheimer
#72. On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings . The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and what is the place ten seconds ahead? There is nothing there. It's very odd.
Arthur J. Deikman
#73. If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.
Phyllis Logan
#74. there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown. When
Elizabeth Berg
#75. I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do
make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.
Stephen King
#76. What if instead of seeing a neighborhood that reminds you of the place you grew up in, you see your actual neighborhood? The data exists. The technology exists. It's just a matter of sourcing it and processing it in a compelling fashion.
Chris Milk
#77. The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
Peter Garrett
#78. This doesn't have fuck-all to do with independence. You're scared because you know if you start something with me, it'll go to a place you and Dane never went. He won't stand by you
he's already proved it. He went pussy on you. And now he gets laid for that?
Jack Travis
Lisa Kleypas
#79. Peace is more than just having a good night's sleep - although many people would think even that to be a miracle - but it is peace in every part of your being all the time. It is a place you live because of the One who lives in you.
Stormie O'martian
#80. The trick to overwriting a habit is to look for the pressure point - your reaction to a cue. The only place you need to apply willpower is to change your reaction to the cue.
Barbara Oakley
#81. From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting ... On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
E.B. White
#82. You are the light in a dark place. You are the water to my drought. You are everything I never knew existed and everything I wanted all at the same time.
Shelly Crane
#83. Church isn't some community you join or some place you arrive. Church is what happens when someone taps you on the shoulder and whispers in your ear, Pay attention, this is holy ground; God is here.
Rachel Held Evans
#84. [Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.
Samuel Beckett
#85. In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the space of six years at least , that you may learn all the parts and members of the art ... drawing without intermission on holidays and work-days
Cennino Cennini
#86. The simplest definition of spirituality is self-awareness. Inside yourself is the peace, love, and truth that are attributes of God. When you contact this place, you meet your true self.
Deepak Chopra
#87. Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
V.S. Naipaul
#88. Your life is your life. You can't live it in compartments.Each place you're in has a door open at either end.
David Levithan
#89. After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.
Elliot Perlman
#90. But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board.
Bear Bryant
#91. Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.
Richard Rohr
#92. When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.
Greg LeMond
#93. A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
Joel A. Barker
#94. But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. ...the moment you become conscious of your desire, and then fulfill it, it evaporates.
Haven Kimmel
#95. The minute you decide to get back in the business the church was commissioned for in the first place, you will pray for boldness.
Andy Stanley
#96. Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.
Cameron Dokey
#97. The only place you'll be escorting me is to the vet so you can have the foot I'm going to shove up your behind removed!
-Jennifer to Decebel
Quinn Loftis
#98. You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)
Paulo Coelho
#99. I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.
Ben Affleck
#100. You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.
James McGreevey
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