Top 100 Some Place Quotes
#1. There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.
Wallace Stegner
#2. You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.
Eyedea
#3. I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
Zaha Hadid
#4. To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
Samuel Lover
#5. The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.
Stephen King
#6. I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.
Christopher Rice
#7. Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It's how you feel for a moment in your life when you're a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#8. The research is the most interesting part ... That's how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I've come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I'm after.
Martin Cruz Smith
#9. A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#10. That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
Lenny Kravitz
#11. One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
Barry Lopez
#12. I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read. Around
Richard Russo
#13. The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
Jules Renard
#14. When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.
Lois Lowry
#15. If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
Langston Hughes
#16. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.
Mason Cooley
#18. Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.
Hilary Duff
#19. You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
Jan Garbarek
#20. This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.
Cole Porter
#21. Somewhere, some place inside myself, I am detached. I have always been detached (in part). Always.
Susan Sontag
#22. Each of us needs something of an island in his life - if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his differences from others.
John Keats
#23. I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.
Bill Huizenga
#24. I know I'm getting something out of it (counseling), Pat is getting something, even my daughter is getting something out of it. We don't like coming, but it is really helping, and it gives us some place to go together.
Jack P. Shepherd
#25. I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.
Bruce Springsteen
#26. It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.
Louisa May Alcott
#27. There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.
Howard Thurman
#28. Some place to stand and place a lever, there's nowhere from which to move the world.
Cherie Priest
#29. Mitch stared at where her hand lay on Blake's crotch and appreciated that his friend didn't comment.
"Please tell me I don't have my hand some place inappropriate." Alana's voice broke.
Eden Summers
#30. Once a year go some place you've never been before
Dalai Lama XIV
#31. Paradise; some place it on Mount Ararat, others between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates; it
Various
#32. If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.
Jesse Eisenberg
#33. The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.
Buzz Aldrin
#34. What search?" I asked. He smiled. "The search for some place more romantic than Pies and Stuff.
Richelle Mead
#35. She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
Carson McCullers
#36. We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like.
Barack Obama
#37. I do want to believe that there's some place in the world that's more mature than high school," Vicky said. "But I haven't found it yet.
Leila Sales
#38. Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
Haruki Murakami
#39. Grounding is most effective when you have some place to go. When you know where you are going, grounding brings strength and confidence, when you're stagnant you get caught in the past.
Tony Curl
#40. Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
Zora Neale Hurston
#41. I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.
Chantal Kreviazuk
#42. I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
Marvin Gaye
#43. Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me.
Dean Koontz
#44. Everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.
Judith Martin
#45. My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.
Kid Rock
#46. If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
Alicia Keys
#47. He had gone right through fear and come out the other side in some place cold. Anger was all that kept him warm. They could gentle him, or burn him to a crisp where he stood, and he no longer cared.
Robert Jordan
#48. that there is some place better than our earthly home - a space where we are accepted no matter what, a banquet table where we are called by name and not ridiculed for being different.
Alice J. Wisler
#49. Sometimes it was important simply to get out. It did not matter where you went, as long as you got out of the office, or the kitchen, or any other place where duty required you to be, and went to some place that you did not have to be.
Alexander McCall Smith
#50. I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.
Noah Baumbach
#52. Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.
Langston Hughes
#53. There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed.
Lou Brock
#54. People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.
Robert Teeter
#55. If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.
Pope Clement I
#56. I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
Wayne Coyne
#57. The figures ... are not supposed to reveal anything ... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.
Wayne Thiebaud
#58. Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.
Bill Nye
#59. To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
Robert Fulghum
#60. When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place.
Drew Busby
#61. Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Tom Petty
#62. Church isn't some community you join or some place you arrive. Church is what happens when someone taps you on the shoulder and whispers in your ear, Pay attention, this is holy ground; God is here.
Rachel Held Evans
#63. Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
Kaitlin Doubleday
#64. Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that "What goes up ... must have started some place." #workhard
Jayce O'Neal
#65. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made.
John Schaar
#66. We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.
Michael Helm
#67. I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.
Will Smith
#68. Hey, like Godzilla always sez to Mothra - why don't we go eat some place?
Thomas Pynchon
#69. She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look.
William Gay
#70. There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.
Edward Hirsch
#71. I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.
Mickey Sumner
#72. They say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflection,some place high above this wall ... and someday I shall be released.
Bob Dylan
#73. It is good to be sitting some place
in public at 2:30 in the afternoon
without getting the flesh ripped from
your bones.
Charles Bukowski
#75. I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.
William S. Burroughs
#76. The way to be happy is to
take pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not in
imagining that happiness is some place at the end of the road.
Toby Reynolds
#77. Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.
Saul Griffith
#78. I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.
Brian Greene
#79. Bobby: So assuming I survive the next 24 hours, where do you want to go on our first date?
Kitty: Some place that doesn't allow children.
Bobby: The strip club it is.
Jason Aaron
#80. What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.
Wayne Muller
#81. Once humankind has been some place and found it
entrancing, they always go back, I think in the history of the
human race, the moon has been the first place we've gone to and said,
'OK, we don't need to go back there again.
Tom Hanks
#82. My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.
Greg Kinnear
#83. I never touched drink. It uproots you. Plants you some place you will never remember the morning after.
Abigail George
#84. The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.
George Orwell
#85. Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
#86. There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
David Viscott
#87. Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.
Jack Nicholson
#88. The helium which we handle must have been put together at some time and some place. We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.
Arthur Eddington
#89. Let us speak behind our hands, lest our lips be read as the book of our designs, and let us find some place where only gods and rats may hear our words aloud.
Scott Lynch
#91. As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Lady Gregory
#92. This would be ... a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.
Chuck Palahniuk
#93. Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
Yukio Mishima
#94. Warn you, Lannister, you'll find no inns at the Wall," he had said, looking down on him. "No doubt you'll find some place to put me," Tyrion had replied. "As you might have noticed, I'm small.
George R R Martin
#95. I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . . . But my place is nowhere; I am unwanted, de trop. The
Jean-Paul Sartre
#96. He was tired and full of shame, and if Ernestino and the others wouldn't brave this rain, he would go it alone, he would find some place to sing, some place where, anonymous and numbed by drink, he could sing until he had forgotten everything.
Anne Rice
#97. Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
Samuel Johnson
#98. I'm a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert!
Amanda Schull
#99. The wind makes you ache in some place that is deeper than your bones.
Stephen King
#100. I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.
Emily Robison
