Quotes by MeaningIn.com

Quotes On place

“

Old age is no place for sissies.

“

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

-Rodney Dangerfield

“

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

“

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

-Henry Louis Gates

“

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

“

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

-Daniel Craig

“

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

-Debra Winger

“

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

“

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

“

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

-Pearl S.Buck

“

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

-Cathy Freeman

“

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

-Calvin Coolidge

“

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

-William Butler Yeats

“

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

-David Walliams

“

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

-Jason Schwartzman

“

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

-Johnny Carson

“

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

“

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

-Sri Aurobindo

“

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

“

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

-Marshall McLuhan

“

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

-Laura Linney

“

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

“

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

-Gael Garcia Bernal

“

I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.

-Susan Wojcicki

“

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

▲

Top Trending Words