Place Quotes - page 14

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary' and an ‘extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all. (Jody Williams)
Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran. View quote
Dean Karnazes
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. View quote
Elihu Root
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream. View quote
Carole King
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter. View quote
Kenzo Tange
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Art is not in some far-off place. View quote
Lydia Davis
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place. (Louis L'Amour)
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. View quote
Louis L'Amour
You have to be in the right place at the right time and understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it. View quote
Anna Sui
I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book. View quote
Neil Jordan
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. View quote
Billie Jean King
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ. View quote
Mark Hopkins
A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both. View quote
Shreya Ghoshal
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. (Elliott Erwitt)
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind. View quote
Alexis Arguello
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. View quote
Andrew Cohen
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window. View quote
Ajay Naidu
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. View quote
Beth Henley