Somewhere Between Quotes

#1. We must reject the idea ... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong ... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business." Most businesses ... Like most of anything else in life ... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.

James C. Collins

#2. Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there's still a thing called opportunity, and that's what people need to pursue.

Mike Rowe

#3. I think I missed my window."
"What window?"
"My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Dick Cavett

#5. The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

Bill Maher

#6. The sounds pouring forth from his nasal passages registered somewhere between grizzly bear and exploding tractor trailer.

Alice Clayton

#7. Somewhere between the smiles, the laughing, the fights about nothing, and all our jokes, I fell in love.

Dawn Williams

#8. Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Francois Mauriac

#9. I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.

Tom Hardy

#10. Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Mark Twain

#12. I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

Nikki Sixx

#13. It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

Dorothy Parker

#14. Paul Davies's The Mind of God seems to hover somewhere between Einsteinian pantheism and an obscure form of deism - for

Richard Dawkins

#15. I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.

Stephen Colbert

#16. Somewhere between 'Princess', 'Bitch' and 'Goddess', lies the life of all women.

Rishiraj Sen

#17. Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#18. People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

Gary Saul Morson

#19. An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.

Federico Fellini

#20. I'm too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn't call myself a woman. I'd say I'm somewhere between a chick and a broad.

Julia Roberts

#21. He wasn't quite sure when he made it, somewhere between turning on the shower and stepping in, perhaps, or pouring the milk and adding the cereal, or maybe a dozen tiny decisions had added up like letters until they finally made a word, a phrase, a sentence.

Victoria Schwab

#22. When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Kiefer Sutherland

#23. In the mind of the Indian public, journalists currently occupy a position of respect somewhere between pond scum and Ebola virus.

Sidin Vadukut

#24. Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

Gaylord Nelson

#25. No matter how perfect our circumstances, most of us, as Adam Phillips observed, "learn to live somewhere between the lives we have and the lives we would like." The hard part is to make peace with that misty zone and to recognize that no life - no life worth living anyway - is free of constraints.

Jennifer Senior

#26. Life does find a way to create a balance somewhere between smiles and tears. And, like a pendulum's swing, life seldom stays in one place. Life keeps on moving until, one day, it stops.

Ralph Webster

#27. He had a lot of muscle and a skill level somewhere between Batman and Rambo.

Janet Evanovich

#28. First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

Elliott Abrams

#29. Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

Robert Breault

#30. Sometimes what you see is not real, and the reality is not what you see. Somewhere between both these reasoning resides a fact: where there is a lack of trust and confidence, perception will always differ with reality.

Ashish Patel

#31. A well-trained marathoner will select a stride length that is somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of her total height. This means that she has less of a vertical displacement requirement.

Jim Gourley

#32. A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Susan Cain

#33. I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals.

Nick Harkaway

#34. He thought that all human religion and philosophy could be reconciled. That the quest for knowledge was the highest good; and that somewhere, between all the wars and debate, there was some universal truth he could discover which would bring humanity together.

Elizabeth Hunter

#35. If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.

Blake Mycoskie

#36. Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Alexander Pushkin

#37. Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance - a frequaintance, as it were.

Rachel Cohn

#38. Twenty-six states have passed renewable portfolio standards, which simply says somewhere between 15% and 30% of their electricity will come from renewables by such-and-such a year. In Washington, D.C., they haven't done a damn thing.

Brian Schweitzer

#39. If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

Ron Suskind

#40. Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

Barton Gellman

#41. A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

Sargent Shriver

#42. Trust hangs somewhere between knowing what your heart longs for and trying to dictate the shape or timing or outcome of your heart's desire. It lies in the willingness to accept the particulars of how and when and where God chooses to intervene. It waits in the cool shade of surrender.

Paula Rinehart

#43. A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Margot Adler

#44. 'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

Wesley Morris

#45. I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

Bill Callahan

#46. My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

Samuel Reshevsky

#47. Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.

John Gofman

#48. My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

Colin Firth

#49. Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex.

Jeanette Winterson

#50. I got bitten by fangs that went to sink'n'drink, but somewhere between swilling'n'killing, the vampire messed up and turned me into a big fat mistake.

Brian Meehl

#51. I punched someone in the library stacks, somewhere between 972.01 and 973.6

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#52. He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

Sara Sheridan

#53. I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.

Claire Morgan

#54. It was as if Jed had moved from one dimension to another. His original dimension hadn't reported him missing, and his new dimension didn't acknowledge his presence. Maybe what he'd really done was end up somewhere between the two. Some days he almost felt invisible.

Rupert Thomson

#55. You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait; but keep in mind miracles are usually accessed somewhere between the 11th hour and resurrection.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#56. The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Calvin Trillin

#57. Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.

Diane Ackerman

#58. Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation and discovery and reverie.

Margaret Drabble

#59. I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.

Alex Webb

#60. If I look closely, I bet I could see my own past, lying on the floor somewhere between the ancient jukebox and the pool table.

Kol Anderson

#61. Somewhere between the shower and the Red Bull I fell in love with you, Aves. I'm talking epically. There is no coming back from a fall like mine.

Kelly Oram

#62. We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

Anne Lamott

#63. I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#64. I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?

Ann Coulter

#65. A device that sits somewhere between the categories of "possible general method" and "for emergency use only / you're going to die method" is the Reverso.

David Coley

#66. Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds ... If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

John Madden

#67. If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.

Stevie Nicks

#68. There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!

Margot Robbie

#69. Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ...

May Sarton

#70. What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Fennel Hudson

#71. Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.

Stacey Lee

#72. Dietary patterns are set at a very early age - somewhere between four and eight years old. The research shows that children who have established a healthy diet are healthier in the longer range and less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity.

Gabriel Cousens M.D.

#73. Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

Steve Jobs

#74. I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

Leo Kottke

#75. If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them ... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#76. From the end of 2005 until the middle of 2007, Wall Street firms created somewhere between $200 and $400 billion in subprime-backed CDOs: No

Michael Lewis

#77. Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

Rod Serling

#78. The present moment is the only dimension of existence worth inhabiting, because it is the only one available to us. (...)
Yet we live virtually all of our lives somewhere between memories, and aspirations, nostalgia and expectations.

Luc Ferry

#79. Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

Ben Hecht

#80. Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.

Roger Ebert

#81. I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed.

Larry Sultan

#82. I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire ... but I had gone to a women's college.

Madeleine Albright

#83. Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world - somewhere between India and the United States. Who's sending missionaries to that country? Who's planting churches there?

Phil Cooke

#84. And I am perhaps confusing several different occasions, and different times, deep down, and deep down is my dwelling, oh not deepest down, somewhere between the mud and the scum.

Samuel Beckett

#85. I've never stopped and never ever will. But the words got tangled up somewhere between his mouth and his brain, and the moment slipped away.

Justin Cronin

#86. I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

John Oliver

#87. Unfortunately, stain removal methods was one of those troublesome subjects somewhere between relationship issues and mysterious car noises. Everybody was an expert, everybody had a cure, and they all fell over themselves to offer their advice.

Jeaniene Frost

#88. The direct and indirect medical costs of low-back pain (LBP) are staggering. In 1991 it was reported that these costs equaled somewhere between $50 and $100 billion per year in the United States, with more recent studies showing these costs increasing.

Whitney W. Lowe

#89. And somewhere between his glassy infatuation for the one, and her growing fervor for the all, they'd found a shady place where two could huddle, grow, even feel nourished.

James Kahn

#90. He pinpointed Helen immediately, despite so many women - all dressed in somber mourning attire - against a background of pitch dark. He offered her a weak smile, somewhere between, 'I didn't mean to look at you' and 'I couldn't help but look at you.

Becca St. John

#91. I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

Eric Bogosian

#92. Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

Pat Summitt

#93. And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#94. Dreams free us from normality. Daydreams, especially, take us somewhere between the real world and the dream world.

Fennel Hudson

#95. That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.

Chris Matakas

#96. I just hope he went someplace where he could find a little peace ... somewhere between nowhere and goodbye ...

F.X. Toole

#97. Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#98. [Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.

Francis Collins

#99. Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

Zoe Heller

#100. Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Robyn Hitchcock