Quotes of: Special-place Keyword

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Hogfather

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

The Art of War

Life is so much richer, so very much more meaningful, if you plant yourself in a place that will nourish you.

Bowling Avenue

Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.

The Bane Chronicles

The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.

Boost Your Self Esteem

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

Bad Feminist: Essays

At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

Between the Lines

Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.

Blackout

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Beach Music

Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.

Circling: 1978-1987

The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Citations: A Brief Anthology

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

Martin McDonagh

I've spent a lot of time in L.A. and I love it. A lot of Brits can't stand the place, but I like the West Coast attitude and the way people celebrate success.

Sophia Myles

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

Tom T. Hall

There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age.

Billy Graham

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

Fabiola Gianotti

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

Helen Dunmore

I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.

John Hurt

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

Juliet Stevenson

I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very young age what you were going to do with the rest of your life. Mine was law.

Leslie Hope