Quotes About Locale

#1. It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

Edward Weston

#2. If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

Salman Rushdie

#3. When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time ... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas ... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.

Arthur C. Clarke

#4. I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale.

Chuck D

#5. the locale. Their faces were pulled tight, more like masks than faces, really. They moved slowly,

Larry Weiner

#6. Couleur locale has been responsible for many hasty appreciations, and local color is not a fast color.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

Chuck D

#8. He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.

Jennifer Arnett

#9. All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

Zaha Hadid

#10. There is a big park in the middle of the locality. Surrounded by at least 50 houses. That those residents got to live in such a locale is their karma. Do they ever come to the park? To walk, jog, run, play ? That is free will.

Andy Paula

#11. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places - a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, "I, too, am here." However,

Thomas Ligotti

#12. Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Elizabeth Bowen

#13. Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.

Robert Creeley

#14. Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

Ronald Reagan

#15. I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time), and even within the same community, and likely within the same schools. This variability makes it difficult to offer generalized responses without accompanying caveats.

Richard A. Falk

#16. In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season spring.

John Munro Woolsey

#17. Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood will
one day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?

Carl Sagan

#18. If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

James M. Cain

#19. The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.

Russell Smith

#20. Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Gene Spafford

#21. It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

Virgil

#22. My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

Zoe Wanamaker

#23. I never saved anything for the swim back.

Andrew Niccol

#24. It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.

Marilynne Robinson

#25. But in public school i learned that it was not only natural but desirable that i should make my own decisions. it was not a matter of cultural background or personality or abilities; it was simply what was true and right

Sheena Iyengar

#26. Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Blake Edwards

#27. if we have several hundred or several thousand cultures, each with its own cosmology, we should not be astounded if, every now and then, purely by chance, one of them proposes an idea that is not only correct but also impossible for them to have deduced.

Carl Sagan

#28. One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness ... which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.

William Everson

#29. You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.

Kris Kristofferson

#30. The place was silent and - aware.

P.C. Wren

#31. O that my heart would melt at the recital of my Savior's sufferings and death. Would

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#32. The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

Umberto Eco