Quotes on Place

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we're to preach the Word to people.

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

I really feel very blessed, and I don't forget it, either; there's an awful lot of wonderful talent in this world, and I just seem to be in the right place at the right time.