Quotes with places

Quotes 61 till 80 of 137.

  • Bell Hooks One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Carson McCullers Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Bob Newhart People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Bryce Harper People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Carmen Kass Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
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  • Billy Collins Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Jonathan Swift Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Carol Shields She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 42
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Bridget Hall Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.
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  • Bernard Cornwell So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Ansel Adams Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Butch Trucks Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Brad Feld Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Jonathan Swift Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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