I've Been There Quotes

#1. When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".

Fred Rogers

#2. I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#3. And I know, because I've been there, that there is a hellworld where you're always expected to have an opinion about everything all the time: a judgment, a take - a 'view,' in the most ordinary sense of the word.

Michael Herr

#4. You don't complete me, Tru. You make me who I am. You make me better. I'd be nothing without you. NOTHING. I've been there once before, and I'm never going back. I'm never losing you again.

Samantha Towle

#5. I'm cautious with the love word because I really know what it means. I've been there, done that and I know what the implications are. I also know that people say they love people when they don't, and it often results in tears and avoidance of bars, supermarkets, even whole towns in extreme cases.

Jessica Thompson

#6. Where are you from?" I started with what I thought was an easy question.
"Everywhere," he grumbled.
"Everywhere?" I stared into the blackness of the espresso. "I don't think I've been there.

Andrea Cremer

#7. Is there a single person on whom I can press belief?
No sir.
All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw.
I've been there and am going back.
Make of it what you will.

Leif Enger

#8. A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.

Kim Basinger

#9. Said the straight man to the late man
Where have you been
I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between
I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear

King Crimson

#10. You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women.

Lindsey Graham

#11. So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

Joan Jett

#12. When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

Alain Robert

#13. It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

Robert Sheckley

#14. 'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'

Raquel Welch

#15. They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years.

Stephen King

#16. People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.

Mark Ruffalo

#17. They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.

Mark Helprin

#18. Here's a newsflash from the only High Preistess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn't dead. And believe me, I know dead. I've been there, done that, and got the frickin' T-shirt. - Stevie Rae

P.C. Cast

#19. I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

Stuart Rose

#20. I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

Joan Chen

#21. Sooner or later they all turn their backs. They all leave. That's gospel. I've been there. I've seen it. They all do.

Colum McCann

#22. But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Abbey Lincoln

#23. I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.

Stephen Pagliuca

#24. don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but the map.

Orson Scott Card

#25. No matter what I'm talking about, I can involve you into the story where you think it's you doing it. You're living it. I can remind you of things that went on in your life so you go, man I had that happen to me. I've been there. I've done that.

Larry Winget

#26. I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

Sylvester Stallone

#27. I relate to [women and children in women's shelters] on a personal level because I've been there myself.

Nia Sanchez

#28. What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way.

Nick Cave

#29. Look what they did to MaCauley Culkin. The poor child. I know because I've been there. But I could say after living my life, truth will always win out. And no one can take my character away from me anymore.

Linda Blair

#30. I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I've been there and not won it. It's really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don't end up with the ring you're never satisfied.

Shaun Alexander

#31. Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.

Dani Shapiro

#32. I love Paris. I've been there a number of times.

Julie Halston

#33. I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

Greg Kinnear

#34. I know it hurts. I know it hurts so bad you can barely breathe sometimes. I know because I've been there. Please don't leave us. I promise life can be good, and we need you too much.

Meredith Russo

#35. I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

Kristin Chenoweth

#36. Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

Matt Dillon

#37. When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

Dan DeCarlo

#38. You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah ... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

Elon Musk

#39. I want to start dating the man that I'm gonna marry. I want to start having some fun with someone that I know I'm gonna be with. I don't play any games. I'm too old for that. I've been there; I've been around the block.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#40. Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have rejoined and gone off again and rejoined, but I've been there the whole time, and even though Alan White is the 'new' drummer, he has been there since 1972, so he also deserves the credit for being around for 20 years.

Chris Squire

#41. The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.

Rumi

#42. You see, you can send me to the penitentiary, it's not a big thing. I've been there all my life anyway. What about your children? These are just a few, there is many, many more coming right at you.

Charles Manson

#43. I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#44. How can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself?

Mitch Albom

#45. I nodded. I've been there. I obsess over mixes all the time. If there's one bad song on there, it kills the whole thing.

Robin Benway

#46. You've been there for every moment of my life and I've been there for yours, too. I do love you. I am in love with you.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#47. My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

Gary Wright

#48. It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

Ben Shahn

#49. Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

Orson Scott Card

#50. Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.

Billy Bush

#51. There are no shepherds in Shepherd's Bush. I've been there. It's just houses and stores and roads and the BBC. That's all." pointed out Richard, flatly.
"There are shepherds," said Hunter, from the darkness just next to Richard's ear. "Pray you never meet them.

Neil Gaiman

#52. I'll make some inquiries, but I won't do it for you. I'll do it because Frannie would want me to."
"You love her, don't you?"
"Go to hell."
Jack laughed. "You're too late with that command, mate. I've been there since I was born.

Lorraine Heath

#53. There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like ... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

A. J. Buckley

#54. My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.

Elliott Yamin

#55. Without you, I'd be a shell of a man. A hollowed-out, empty, lifeless carcass. And I know that because I've been there. I lived through it. I lived through losing you due to my own stupidity, and I can never explain to you what that felt like

J. Sterling

#56. I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.

Chick Corea

#57. To me, being in the big time is not that big of a deal. I've been there; I know what it is. It's exciting, but it's also a lot of work and pressure. I love sort of flying under the radar where we can play theaters and sell CD's on the Internet, and it's really kind of a cool time.

Roger McGuinn

#58. I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.

Mindy Kaling

#59. I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.

Pam Houston

#60. I understand these dogs. I know what it's like to be cast aside, to feel unwanted, to believe you have no one to fight for you. I've been there. Time and time again. It hurts like all hell, but if I don't fight for them, who will?

Karina Halle

#61. I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

Aron Ralston

#62. I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

Katherine Jenkins

#63. I know dead. I've been there, done that and got the freakin' T-shirt.

P.C. Cast

#64. I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

Michael W. Smith

#65. I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.

Sidney Sheldon

#66. I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again.
- Kristine

Martha Cecilia

#67. I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

Gail Carson Levine

#68. With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.

M. C. Gainey

#69. I'm not a big prank guy, because I don't like them done to me. I've been on movies sets where one guys goes into his trailer, and then people move the stairs, and he comes out of his trailer, and there's no stairs. That's not funny! I don't want to be that guy!

Terry Crews

#70. I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?"

Lewis Black

#71. The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

Story Musgrave

#72. There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

Terry Pratchett

#73. I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. It's always been there for you, waiting for your love to finn in the nooks and crannies. (Drew)

Eva Charles

#74. No matter what kind of problem I've run into, there's always been a solution for it. Now, obviously, there will be a point where there aren't any more solutions, and I'll have used up my time. We all do.

Dick Cheney

#75. Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?

Alice Munro

#76. For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.

Andy Roddick

#77. There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.

Allen Iverson

#78. There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.

Brian May

#79. I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections - to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year.

Elizabeth Taylor

#80. With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.

Cheryl Hayashi

#81. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#82. There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

Robert Plant

#83. You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#84. I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

Tracie Thoms

#85. God, I want to dream again, take me where I've never been! I want to go there, this time I'm not scared! Now I am unbreakable, it's unmistakable! No one can touch me, nothing can stop me!

Fireflight

#86. I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

Denzel Washington

#87. We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

Colin Firth

#88. I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split second and I feel like I've seen too much. And that's the way, I've been like that most of my life, so I could never say I was there yet in any stretch of the imagination.

Richard Ashcroft

#89. I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

Elizabeth Strout

#90. What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

John Cage

#91. I'm probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I've been writing these books, bringing these stories to my readers who I love so much, and I have a greater love for my family.

Karen Kingsbury

#92. What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

Steve Spurrier

#93. I cannot believe that I am actually excited at the sight of him. It has been long since anyone has made me feel THIS ... and even though I know I've avoided THIS for fear of getting hurt, there's something about him that makes me want to trust him.

Jane Green

#94. On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years. We've just lost a great writer in Antonin Scalia.

Dahlia Lithwick

#95. If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Anne Sweeney

#96. Never boyfriends? You've NEVER been in LOVE?"
As I shake my head no, I look out the window, yearning to see Cole's sun-filled eyes again looking into mine.
"Don't worry," Tiger said. "Love isn't easy- and it happens on its own time. Just hang in there. He'll come around.

Giorge Leedy

#97. If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

Phil Ramone

#98. The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

Russell Peters

#99. I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice.

Nicole Richie

#100. I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

Annika Sorenstam