The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
The problem with the Peter Principle is that it assumes somebody somewhere is competent in the first place.
President wants coup in some place called 'Canada' someone find a map
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.
Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.
The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.
It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.
I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.
I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
