Wonderful Places Quotes

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  Walt Disney

  Death, Dream, Inspiration

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• Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

  Christopher Alexander

  People, World, Wonderful

  Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.206, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

  Kiran Desai

  Writing, Diaspora, Lucky

  "The publishing world is pretty heinous: Kiran Desai". Interview with Nabanita Sircar, www.indiatoday.in. October 30, 2006.

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• I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Intelligent, People, Interesting

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• I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Children, Thinking

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• I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Thinking

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• The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

  George Seaton

  Country, Imagination, Wonderful

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• Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

  Stephen Harper

  Police, Wonderful, Members

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• Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.

  Terence Stamp

  Cities, San Francisco, Magic

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• In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

  Norman Mailer

  Thinking, Library, Sanctuary

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• Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

  Chris Isaak

  Growing Up, Home, Typical

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• [St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Artist, Fishing, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Makeup, Ideas

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• Camp David is a wonderful place for the family to get away and run around and do goofy things.

  Susan Ford

  Running, Goofy, Wonderful

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• Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.

  Nancy Spain

  Book, Writing, Atmosphere

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• The world is a strange and wonderful place.

  Laurie Anderson

  World, Strange, Wonder

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• There is a wonderful place
  where flowers grow in colors
  beyond the words of poets...
  trees sing with the
  songs of butterflies.
  And mythical tigresses look
  at you with fiery golden eyes...
  open your heart
  and feel the colors of magic
  blooming inside you.

  Laurel Burch

  Song, Flower, Eye

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• United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more friends - a lot more engagements with the Chinese, with the Indians, with the Brazilians as the United States retreats. Actually, Africa is a wonderful place to do business and American business is missing a big opportunity by really overlooking Africa.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Opportunity, Missing, Chinese

  "Mo Ibrahim: The 'Bill Gates Of Africa'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 25, 2013.

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• I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing

  Ray Davies

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city.

  Jane Curtin

  New York, Cities, Bystanders

  "Jane Curtin looks at "Unforgettable" life and career". Interview with Jill Jacobs, www.reuters.com. April 13, 2012.

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• New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  New York, Awful, Wonderful

  "'You have to make sure things don't go to your head'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2005.

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• In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.

  Stephen Collins

  Mother, Running, Daughter

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• No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the where's he gone again?

  Steve Bruce

  Football, Country, Disrespect

  "Mancini asks 'Garry who?' as Cook leaves City, plus 'win an Everton directors' experience'". www.mirror.co.uk. September 11, 2011.

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• Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.

  Jay Bell

  Beautiful, People, Would Be

  Jay Bell (2017). “Something Like Summer: School Edition”, p.24, Jay Bell

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