Top 82 Someplace Else Quotes
#1. And for the second time that day he blesses the certainty of airports because he can always turn around and go someplace else.
Colson Whitehead
#2. Most people here have spent most of their time someplace else. You learn
Samuel R. Delany
#3. Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.
Marge Piercy
#4. I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.
Seymour Chwast
#6. Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
Nanci Griffith
#7. There's always someplace to go, even if it's only someplace else.
John Connolly
#8. That was high school in a nutshell. No one was where they belonged. They were all on their way to someplace else.
Sarah Addison Allen
#10. Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
Barack Obama
#11. I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.
Jordana Brewster
#12. Which tent is your favourite?" he asks.
"The Ice Garden," Celia answers, without even pausing to consider.
"Why is that?" Marco asks.
"Because of the way it feels," she says. "It's like walking into a dream. As though it is someplace else entirely and not simply another tent ...
Erin Morgenstern
#13. When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.
Javier Bardem
#14. Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
Henry A. Kissinger
#15. America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait ... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
Isabel Wilkerson
#16. Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.
Abderrahmane Sissako
#17. I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness, is very, very real. To me, at least.
John Hodgman
#18. Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else.
Wayne Dyer
#19. Silly man, doesn't he know money is imaginary? It's paper that turns into numbers on screens, after all. It's there, then it's gone. I put it places, I take it out, I move it someplace else. Imaginary. Most things are imaginary, when you think about it.
Kiersten White
#20. In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.
Ray Dandridge
#21. None of us ever thought to write a song about all the shit that was going on back then: war, revolution, civil war, turmoil. Our songs were trying to take you someplace else.
Levon Helm
#22. How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?
Mark Peter Hughes
#23. Be here now. Be someplace else later. - DAVID BADER I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - MARK TWAIN
Bob Litwin
#24. The road snakes south, then north, ultimately taking us east, and I wonder if life is like that. Go one way, then another, to end up someplace else.
Ellen Hopkins
#25. My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
Jeanne Moreau
#26. He'll keep changing tacks, Marcia had said. It's the way he puts people on the defensive. Pretty soon he'll have you hitting out at where you think he's going to be, and he'll get you someplace else.
Stephen King
#27. I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.
Jessye Norman
#28. Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.
Cristina Henriquez
#29. I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else.
Jay London
#30. When you put a great big obstacle (your feeling of unworthiness), in front of a running stream, it's not like it's going to stop the flow of the divine force. The divine force will just go around your unworthiness and flow someplace else.
Wayne Dyer
#31. The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering all the adulation that goes with it. But, if you're not hitting or not throwing well, or are injured, you better look for fun someplace else.
Dave Winfield
#32. Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Beverly Sills
#33. Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny ... All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.
Jennifer Egan
#34. The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.
Thomas Pynchon
#35. I hate this idea that we, as Americans, are going to say we're going to have a sense at the border, someplace else, that - to figure out whether or not Muslims can come to the United States.
Dalia Mogahed
#36. It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you don't listen to it, you don't have it, you're never gonna get it, 'cause it's never gonna come from someplace else.
Donny Deutsch
#37. Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
Morton Hunt
#38. Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
Jerry Garcia
#39. If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.
Stompin' Tom Connors
#40. The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower
Peter
Laurell K. Hamilton
#41. If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
Peter Diamandis
#42. Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.
Bob Dylan
#43. I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.
Phil Klay
#44. Go sell crazy someplace else; we're all stocked up."
(Melvin Udall aka Jack Nicholson, 1997)
Jack Nicholson
#45. I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you
the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.
Andy Rooney
#46. There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is
right here, right now
or you're someplace else.
Gay Hendricks
#47. Maybe they'll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don't fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that's what they'll do.
Margaret Atwood
#48. I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there might be a wife someplace else.
Bella Abzug
#49. Where are you from, Hadrian?" "Hintindar originally - a little village south of here in Rhenydd." "Originally? What's that supposed to mean? You got yourself born someplace else recently?
Michael J. Sullivan
#51. I have a dream of getting a visa, which is a dream that many people have so they can leave their countries to come someplace else, specifically they want to come to the United States.
Juan Luis Guerra
#52. You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.
Frederick Lenz
#53. We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.
Lauren DeStefano
#54. Yogi Berra once stated, "If you don't know where you're going, you might end up someplace else.
Vickie Bevenour
#55. Life is a lot like the interstate, where every exit is an entrance someplace else.
Karen White
#56. It's a funny thing about Hollywood. Once you've been out here awhile, it's hard to go someplace else, and it gets harder the longer you stay here. Takes some real propulsion to make you leave.
Pamela Moore
#57. Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
Stephen King
#58. Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."
Wayne Dyer
#59. You let go of someone not because you no longer care, not because you no longer need and want them in your life, but because you understand that they will be happier someplace else. You will be happy someplace else.
Luminita D. Saviuc
#60. Abel grabs my shoulders to steady me. "You can do this," he say. "I won't lie. Part of me was hoping you would abandon this but we've come this far. You're special, cousin. You're going to do great things. Just promise me that you won't love it someplace else and leave me here alone.
Celia Mcmahon
#61. None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.
Barbara Barrington Jones
#63. A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.
Edna Buchanan
#64. Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.
Sarah McLachlan
#65. "Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.
Gertrude Stein
#66. But when you get to a higher level of consciousness, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else.
Wayne Dyer
#67. Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.
Peggy Noonan
#68. I always have someplace else I'd rather be, even if I don't know where that is, yet.
Ann Aguirre
#69. So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
Richard M. Daley
#70. America is a country founded by people from someplace else on ideas borrowed from someplace else, ultimately to try to distinguish itself from everyplace else. It is a fraught balance of identity.
Anonymous
#71. We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.
Ann Druyan
#72. It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
Dennis Quaid
#73. After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.
Daniel Handler
#74. The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.
Stephen Chbosky
#75. Maybe that's the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that's not.
Brock Clarke
#76. You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else can reach us.
Rachel Vincent
#77. If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be.
Mark W. Boyer
#78. My father was a strange combination of drill instructor and Alice's white rabbit: he always had someplace important to go and enjoyed bossing everyone else around.
Katie McGarry
#79. But after awhile you stand up, wipe the frost out of your ear, go someplace to get warm, bum a nickel for coffee, and then start walkin' toward somewheres else that ain't near no bridge.
William Kennedy
#80. As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.
Ronee Blakley
#81. It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something ...
Carol Emshwiller
#82. The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
Charles Bukowski
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