I have to go places beyond music.

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note…

— Robbie Robertson

I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie…

— Christopher Paolini

I have always been interested in incorporating real places into the music I make. Bringing the outside into the controlled world of recorded sound…

— Jon Hopkins

The way you challenge Superman is by having things happen very, very quickly in different places and then asking, 'Who does he save first?…

— Jim Lee

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better…

— Robert Shapiro

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has…

— Stephen Kinzer

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed…

— Yo-Yo Ma

The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games…

— Suzanne Collins

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama

To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of…

— Bill Callahan

As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure…

— James Patterson

Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do…

— Ory Okolloh

My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space…

— Martin Rees