#place

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#am #anew #day #every #every day

I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#buddies #come #could #embarrassed #extremely

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#colorado #get #i #i can #just

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#apply #been #beyond #caught #circumstances

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me. ↗

— Herve Villechaize

#knew #me #old #place #years

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 hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#bullets #compared #dodging #dungeons #famine

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#certain #far #lower #man #only

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#finally #himself #place #shall #sun

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#champagne #hotel #music #penn #pittsburgh

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#any #climbs #daily #down #drops