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16265 Place quotes by 8295 unique authors

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. — Winston Churchill
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear… — John Ciardi
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and… — Tim Allen
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to… — Eric Clapton
Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place,… — Laurel Clark
The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans… — John Henrik Clarke
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. — John Henrik Clarke
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its… — Albert Claude
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque… — Carl von Clausewitz
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. — Beverly Cleary
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so. — Isabel Allende
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where… — Hillary Clinton
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in… — Isabel Allende
I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. — Isabel Allende
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked… — Isabel Allende
I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place… — George Clooney
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment… — George Clooney
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of… — Chuck Close
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. — Ty Cobb
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very… — Leonard Cohen
The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually.… — Jarvis Cocker
I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for… — Diablo Cody
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. — David Allan Coe
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the… — Sam Abell

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