(1102 quotes found)
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey
“What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,”
Nicolas Sarkozy
“Then I saw a design. There on the map...For me, the migration had been to places and moments of glimpsed clarity.”
William Least Heat Moon
“A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.”
Wes Montgomery
“Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.”
Charles Dickens
“So we decided we'd basically go on tour twice and play the same places.”
Conor Oberst
“The producer had to stop recording and wait for me to compose myself, ... There are quite a few places in my memoir that I don't read again and don't read out loud at appearances. It's interesting. You can write it down and even work with it in writing, but speaking your words out into the world has a different kind of power.”
Carlos Santana
“There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.”
Tom Seaver
“I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.”
David Attenborough
“We do special things to celebrate the club. We go places to eat, and we celebrated our 10th anniversary in Canada. At least once a year, we have one fun get-together. A few times, we've gone to Minot to meet with our broker. We've had fun times with the group, too, we're not all down-to-earth business.”
Betty Nostdahl
