Quotes with place

Quotes 241 till 260 of 738.

  • Ann Patchett I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • David Livingstone I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Brooke Elliott I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; it's just a part of me.
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Ann Veneman I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Bell Hooks I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Nick Lappos If a place needs helicopters, it's probably not worth visiting.
    Nick Lappos
    American helicopter technician
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  • Thomas Hardy If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Boethius If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
    You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
    But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
    Drifting and losing his mastery,
    Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
    And binds the chain with which he will be bound.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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