Completely Beside Ourselves Quotes

#1. We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we're completely beside ourselves.

Karen Joy Fowler

#2. I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

Karen Joy Fowler

#3. The secret to a good life, he once told me, 'is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.'
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

#4. He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

Terry Pratchett

#5. You're the only one who can leave me completely breathless even when there's nothing but silence between us. It's 'like I can lay beside you and we not say a single word and still I have the best time.

Lisa Brooks

#6. Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

Diane Setterfield

#7. Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

Esther Williams

#8. I don't sleep. I wait. I sleep in cars and on couches. I sleep when I can, but when I can't sleep, I just don't, so I figure there's a higher calling keeping me on point that night.

Charlie Sheen

#9. You guys are weird," Tori said.
Simon sat on the crate beside me. "That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.

Kelley Armstrong

#10. Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Harold Bloom

#11. It's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. I'm not alone, I think. Carmichael's height, his black T-shirt, black jeans, and dark hair feel like a protective wall beside me. But I am alone. I am completely alone.

Amanda Maciel

#13. I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.

Ian Dunbar

#15. Her feet tingled. One whole hour to forget about the leaky kitchen sink, her father's retirement party, and her mother's relentless questions about it. She closed her eyes. One whole hour to completely unwind and indulge her thoughts in something beside caterers, plumbers, and homicide cases.

Lisa Harris

#16. It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

Bob Cousy

#17. There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

Gerard Butler

#18. As I turned to leave, I looked down. Beside my foot, a sprout of greenery was clawing its way through the pristine nothingness to begin anew. It was later that I realized my haven had sent me a message, and it had shown me that nothing is ever completely lost, unless you cease searching.

J.D. Stroube

#19. No Life can pompless pass away -
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here -

Emily Dickinson

#20. It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.

Arlen Specter

#21. The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.

Diane Kruger

#22. This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also to engage the culture and reclaim it for Christ. That's really what is driving me.

William A. Dembski

#23. At her elbow was a slim pile of creamy white paper beside which she laid down her pen. It was only then, at the sight of these clean sheets, that the last traces, the stain, of her own situation vanished completely. She no longer had a private life, she was ready to be absorbed.

Ian McEwan

#24. The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

Robert Benchley

#25. The prefect evening ... lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy ... Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

Christopher Isherwood

#26. He wasn't sure how it would be, but
when Laurent saw who was beside him,
he smiled, the expression a
little shy but completely genuine.
Damen, who hadn't been expecting it,
felt the single painful beat of his heart.
He'd never thought Laurent could look
like that at anyone.

C.S. Pacat