Where You Quotes

#1. Visibility doesn't automatically translate into value, don't just be everywhere, be where you are most needed.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#2. How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?

Mark Peter Hughes

#3. Home is where you are. I would go anywhere for you if you wanted me there.

Mariana Zapata

#4. Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

Meryl Streep

#5. But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

Chris Kyle

#6. With aggressive come-ons, at least you knew where you stood. Holding hands, you got - hopeful.

Laura Florand

#7. Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

David Bach

#8. When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#9. A piercing screech from above caught my attention. However, it was the arm landing beside me with teeth marks that let me know what was going on.
"Can you be a little more careful where you let body parts fall?"
- Faith, Witch Devotions

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#10. Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.

Kelly Hu

#11. No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Being yourself is not remaining where you are, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure.

Sydney J. Harris

#13. You are supposed to be ON. By ON I mean doing your very best work always. Operating at a level where you are dangerously good and exceptionally creative.

Detavio Samuels

#14. 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

#15. Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

C.S. Lewis

#16. I think no matter where you go, you'll be happy as long as you know why you're there.

Rachel Kapelke-Dale

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

Warwick Thornton

#18. There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

Adam Driver

#19. Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

Dorothy Parker

#20. I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere where you could do a lot of aspect of music without it being a conservatory. And that's why I went there.

Tod Machover

#21. In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.

Darlene Love

#22. In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.

Robert Dessaix

#23. I think that when you're 5'4 and 150 pounds and you love to chat and you have a blog about shopping, trying to maintain a tiny bit of mystery where you possibly can is not a bad thing.

Mindy Kaling

#24. People are like water in a pond where you cannot see the bottom. You think you know where it is shallow and where it is deep but it's only when you have to dive in head first that you find out where it is truly deep.

J.L. Witterick

#25. If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

Morgan Freeman

#26. Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

Rebecca Solnit

#27. A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Eddie Cantor

#28. If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

Jack Lemmon

#29. His arms got tight before he whispered, You like where you are just as much as I like you here.

Kristen Ashley

#30. I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

Gillian Jacobs

#31. So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

Mark Hamill

#32. You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

Angelique Kidjo

#33. If you put any effort into anything you do and have a strong sense of self to the point where you don't even question your choices before you walk out of the house - you're a fucking weirdo.

Jen Kirkman

#34. Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#35. I'm able to impact kids' lives, I'm able to give back and I will impact so many kids' lives because I feel like that moment taught me that no matter where you are in life, no matter what you may want in life you keep going.

La'el Collins

#36. Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

Al Davis

#37. All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out of step with everyone else, not hipster-weird, where you affect the weirdness embraced by everyone else at the coffee shop.

Karen Karbo

#38. You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

Arundhati Roy

#39. You can't understand where you should be going until you understand what you were created to be.

Norma Gail

#40. Use your fear ... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

Amelia Earhart

#41. I talk specifically to the lifestyle and those who can relate to it. And I feel like, where the creativity comes in, is where you draw the parallels that everybody can relate to. That's where it's creative for me. I feel like it works best that way.

Pusha T

#42. I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

Andy Dick

#43. Perfection, my dear being,
is what you are.
Let not your mind
obscure your view.
Be still and be aware,
right where you are,
you cannot miss it.

Santosh Lamichhane

#44. There is an access to ... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of a large picture on a large screen at home. People go out less. I don't know that it's going to stay that way but, I think also, we've got to start making better movies.

Ridley Scott

#45. Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.

Sun Ra

#46. And it happens like that. Like when you first realize that there is no such thing as magic. Or that nothing actually answers your prayers, or really even listens. That cold moment of dismay where your feet are kicked from under you, where you're disarmed by a shard of knowing.

Craig Silvey

#47. The position that places you on your knees at my feet, if I so choose to command you there, the one where you realize that no matter the power you wield, I am
and will always be
stronger and in control. Time, Ella, I want time. Aleixandre

Inger Iversen

#48. The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.

Daisaku Ikeda

#49. The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

Albert Einstein

#50. A charity donkey is where you sponsor a donkey in a sanctuary and give them three pounds a month to have some donkey nuts or something.

Richard C. Armitage

#51. What are you
some kind of addict? Is this where you come to ...

Peter Greenaway

#52. Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

Elizabeth Ashley

#53. However, it still seriously pisses me off that we live in a world where you can't be free to express yourself in whatever strange way you happen to choose.

L. H. Cosway

#54. The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

Frederick Lenz

#55. Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.

Chris Evans

#56. Start where you left off; do not avoid the difficult parts

Avis Cardella

#57. If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.

Myles Horton

#58. Your dreams will take you where you belong.

Debasish Mridha

#59. It's not something where you can say, one time you said this and now you said this. That doesn't peel off any of his people. The only way that you can do it is by out alphaing [Doanld] Trump, and I think that's what Marco Rubio's attempting to do.

Bernie Sanders

#60. Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

Henry Thomas

#61. Where you some particular person because people recognized you as that?

Penelope Farmer

#62. The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

John C. Maxwell

#63. Whenever I use to think of others, I had to sacrifice myself ... , Its called life in earth where you had to think a lot to do or not to do, the things you like or dislike ...

Nutan Bajracharya

#64. There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

Jacob K. Javits

#65. In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda ... coulda ... shoulda.

Jesse Eisenberg

#66. One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

Eric Holder

#67. Lord, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides. Psalm 26:8

Beth Moore

#68. Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

MC Hammer

#69. The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

Louis De Bernieres

#70. It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#71. She put the steaming mutton down in front and he smacked his lips 'they taught you something where you came from, anyway,' he said. 'I always say there's two things women ought to do by instinct, and cookin's one of 'em.

Daphne Du Maurier

#72. If you look back at my story, it doesn't matter where you look, but God's fingerprints are all over the place.

Jeremy Lin

#73. I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

Sanaa Lathan

#74. Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#75. It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

Larry McMurtry

#76. You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

Sonia Rykiel

#77. Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Christian Morgenstern

#78. Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you
They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you

T.I. Harris

#79. The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it,

Max Reinhardt

#80. we all have different dreams and ideas of what we want to create for our lives. In addition, I'm very clear that who you know, where you go and what you own are not the true measure of personal success.

Anthony Robbins

#81. Even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#82. When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

Astro Teller

#83. Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

George R R Martin

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

Tim Cope

#85. Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

L'Wren Scott

#86. Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

Frederick Lenz

#87. Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

Annie Dillard

#88. Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.

Steve Maraboli

#89. I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

Jennifer Lopez

#90. Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.

Bryant McGill

#91. Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise."
"Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I ...

Leo Tolstoy

#92. Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it ... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.

Alfred Molina

#93. Think twice before you buy. Decide before you purchase anything where you are going to keep it and what you are going to use it for. If your answers to either of these questions are vague, then you are about to purchase clutter. Desist from buying.

Karen Kingston

#94. As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

Kevin Spacey

#95. 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

#96. There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

Jeff Abbott

#97. It's amazing, especially coming from the small city of Paterson, to have all of those people just being behind you and supporting your career and understanding where you come from.

Victor Cruz

#98. Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

Paul Caponigro

#99. Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

Sarah J. Maas

#100. There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

Elizabeth Wein