#place

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. ↗

— Donald Davis

#anywhere #could #created #die #discovered

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#fact #governments #place #policies #put

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box. ↗

— Evan Davis

#always #bbc #been #box #caravan

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. ↗

— Donald Judd

#away #fragile #most #moved #never

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#conditions #critically #down #emerging #enforcement

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#assume #been #bring #cheaply #either

Time seems to stop in certain places. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#places #seems #stop #time

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. ↗

— Mark Twain

#knows #place #procession #tail #wit

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. ↗

— Bjork

#cruel #different #feel #i #i feel