Neither Here Nor There Quotes

#1. As I understand it, the Celts venerated all sorts of plexus-type things: the seashore, dawn, dusk, the edge of the forest - anything that was neither here nor there, so to speak.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#2. Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. You could fill a book with all the things you don't know,girl. In fact-I think someone may have already written it.But that's neither here nor there.

Lauren Kate

#4. Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

Colleen McCullough

#5. I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

Victoria Chang

#6. The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

Imelda Marcos

#7. If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.

Frederick Lenz

#8. In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither here nor there. Theology, at its best, can help to liberate us from our own anthropocentric limitations.

Andrew Linzey

#9. How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain."
"Your mother is dense," Alif said wearily.
"My mother was an errant crest of sea foam. But that is neither here nor there.

G. Willow Wilson

#10. What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#11. I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

A. N. Wilson

#12. Why weren't we born in the same era?" he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, "How mundane and cliche would that be?

Donna Lynn Hope

#13. The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast
it can illuminate the nights.
With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light
and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!

Mahmoud Darwish

#14. There are places in this world that are neither here nor there, neither up nor down, neither real nor imaginary ...

Thomas Moore

#15. Morality has precious little to do with feeling in any case. The fact that you feel a surge of nausea at the sight of someone with half their head shot away is neither here nor there as long as you try to help them.

Terry Eagleton

#16. This is the twilight shift, dear. Neither here nor there. But if you go into the dark, there'll be no turning back. Stay out of the office and you'll be happy. Trust me.

Steven Poore

#17. He doesn't deserve to die," she said. Tears pricked at her eyes. "Does anyone? Whether he deserves it or not is neither here nor there; it's simply his fate. You can no more change that than you can change the course of the stars.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#18. And everyone knows I'm a mad scientist. It's amazing what everyone knows, isn't it? Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal. But that's neither here nor there.

Mira Grant

#19. Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time ...

Janet Morris

#20. If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it?

Chic Murray

#21. When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts ... Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Hermann Hesse

#22. She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.

Catherynne M Valente

#23. I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while waiting. You're just sort of suspended.

Jennifer E. Smith

#24. Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

James Russell Lowell

#25. The actual handbag is neither here nor there
it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing.

Caitlin Moran

#26. But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Laurence Sterne

#27. I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.

Jesse Eisenberg

#28. Be careful, daughter ... You are a creature of the crossroads, neither here nor there. 'Tis a dangerous place to be.

Deborah Harkness

#29. I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Edward Gorey

#30. It's wrong to think that money is the first requirement for great accomplishments. This argument is neither here nor there. Money or no money, success begins with your ideas.

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. The colour grey is an unemotional colour, neutral, on the fence and neither here, nor there. Tis why old people's hair turns grey . . . betwixt life and death.

Ursley Kempe

#32. The spell ... curled around ... like smoke before settling in.
Sophie: "Okay, do you guys feel protected?"
Archer: "Yes. Also a little violated, but that's neither here nor there.

Rachel Hawkins

#33. Perhaps that was the reason she felt so hemmed in. Islands were places in between; places neither here nor there, but rather places on the way somewhere. That was how she felt. Not settled.

Kimberley Freeman

#34. It was pointed out that by "natural" there might here be meant either "normal" or "necessary", and that neither the "normal" nor the "necessary" could be seriously supposed to be either always good or the only good things.

G.E. Moore

#35. He asked that God remember those who had died and he asked that the living gathered together here remember that the corn grows by the will of God and beyond that will there is neither corn nor growing nor light nor air nor rain nor anything at all save only darkness. Then they ate.

Cormac McCarthy

#36. It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

Clifford D. Simak

#37. The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.

Junipero Serra

#38. He says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which meet and part ... I have two languages, but I have long forgotten - which is the language of my dreams

Mahmoud Darwish

#39. I am who I am and there's nothing wrong with that. The days continue like they always have. They bring neither excessive desire nor despair. Nothing's changed. Yet I'm overwhelmed with a sense of fulfillment. I'm right here. You're over there. If I'm your savior, then you're mine

Ryohgo Narita

#40. The scatterbrain,
is a little like,
the patter of rain.
Neither here,
nor there,
but everywhere.

Lang Leav

#41. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.

Anonymous

#42. But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

Knute Nelson

#43. The world out there is nothing more than a load of places with people in 'em. And the people out there are neither more interesting, nor better, nor lower, than us here in Angle Tar.
It's humans, Rue. We're the same wherever you go, no matter what we surround ourselves with.

Laure Eve

#44. Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.

John Bunyan