#place

You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#business #comfort #constant #constant need #get

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#come #forced #place #terms #travel

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #finding #four #great #i

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#house #i #improving #leave #many

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#case #developing #direction #few #going

I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams. ↗

— Jim Thome

#chance #clubs #different #different places #enjoyed

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#alternative #argument #because #could #examine

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness. ↗

— George Aiken

#felt #found #i #need #often

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#cds #facilities #homes #investment #life-long

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#first #foremost #had #lab #library