Top 100 Somewhere Else Quotes
#1. Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
Tara Brach
#2. When you don't know where you're at, you don't get upset you're not somewhere else.
George W. Buck
#3. In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Giacomo Leopardi
#4. The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
Charles Bukowski
#5. The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.
John Bingham
#6. The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
Pat Oliphant
#8. In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
Campbell Scott
#9. Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.
Matthew Zapruder
#10. My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.
Ali Smith
#11. 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
#12. Your best to succeed in life is in yourself. As long as you think it is somewhere else, or in somebody else, you will be a failure".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#13. From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
Tony Hillerman
#14. Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.
George Carlin
#15. He was unafraid of death, understanding it was only the seamless moment that takes you to somewhere else.
Boston Teran
#16. But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction that could never be new again.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#17. 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
#18. Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.
Chris Squire
#19. It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
David Lee Roth
#20. The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else
that is, that it is not with you.
Robert Holden
#21. It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is.
Aphex Twin
#22. Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.
Epictetus
#23. It is nearly impossible to be here now when you think there is somewhere else to be.
Guru Gobind Singh
#24. As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the eye to come back to the United States.
Rick Santorum
#25. When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.
John Scalzi
#26. Our stomachs live in towns, said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Mark Twain
#28. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.
William Eggleston
#29. What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
Etta James
#30. Without Claire I wouldn't have been nowhere, but I would have been somewhere else.
Herman Koch
#31. The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else ...
Irvin D. Yalom
#32. I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
Jane Siberry
#33. I just mean that everything eventually ends. The two suns are always rising somewhere. That's part of life. Something ends and then something else will begin.
Sue Monk Kidd
#34. I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
Julian Schnabel
#35. A person had to learn to come to terms with the fate determined for him by God. It would do no good to grumble that one would rather be someone else or live somewhere else. Instead one had to try to make the best of the situation; that was the only way to fulfill God's plans.
Jan Guillou
#36. Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else.
John Steinbeck
#37. Someone else shoved a pencil in your hand and aimed you in the direction of a burning building somewhere and told you not to come back without a quote from the fire marshall, kid, and that was it: you were a reporter.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#38. They will never forgive us for this Somewhere Else.
Helene Cixous
#39. The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
Whitey Herzog
#40. When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard!
Craig Groeschel
#41. The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to break down the illusion that we have a life here and that a life of God is somewhere else.
Michael Beckwith
#42. Hunt immediately adjusted his hold, bracing her easily. "I thought you looked pale," he remarked, gently stroking back a lock of hair that had fallen over her damp face. "What's the matter, sweetheart? Is it just your stomach, or do you hurt somewhere else?
Lisa Kleypas
#43. They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.
John Trudell
#44. My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it.
John Gimlette
#45. The big car companies are so derivative. They want to see it work somewhere else before they will approve the project and move forward.
Ashlee Vance
#46. One of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into the darkness. He was a trombone player in a matching band in a world somewhere else.
Michael Connelly
#47. What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.
Kendrick Lamar
#48. An unhappy child not getting comfort or support at home will look for it somewhere else. Next
Gavin De Becker
#49. LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they made the factory too easy to take apart and rebuild somewhere else.
Conan O'Brien
#50. I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
Tanith Lee
#51. Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift.
William Trevor
#52. The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.
Mike Love
#54. I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
David Nicholls
#55. I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.
Kara Swisher
#56. I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt like we were going to repeat ourselves, and I needed to learn more, I would go somewhere else.
Johnny Marr
#57. Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.
Brenda Shoshanna
#58. When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.
Freida Pinto
#59. As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory.
Chica Umino
#60. let's get away from him, go somewhere else.' I
John Grisham
#61. The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett
#62. ah, life -
the thing
that happens
to us
while we're off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.
Amanda Lovelace
#63. Sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.
Robin Hobb
#64. You stand up straw men," Nynaeve said. "We have a saying in the Two Rivers. 'Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.' Take your contest somewhere else and leave Emond's Field folk out of it.
Robert Jordan
#65. Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
Mary McCarthy
#66. To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#67. Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
Mark Cuban
#68. But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.
Sylvia Plath
#69. Something terrible is happening to me, Mom," he said, his voice cracking. For the first time all morning, he felt close to tears. "Oh, baby," she said again. "Why couldn't you have gone somewhere else?" "Excuse me?" "I don't want to hear about any more of your problems.
Joe Hill
#70. And I know
That they will never
Keep me down
Because there is always
An exit window
That leads somewhere
No one else will go
And the gambling bastards
Well, they always leave it unlocked
Yes, they do
Matthew Quick
#71. Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.
Beth Orton
#72. But if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth.
Joseph Campbell
#73. Somebody sniggered. From Somewhere int he back of the room someone else sneered, "Yeah, Hazel," which was not the greatest insult ever, but one thing Hazel had learned at her new school was when it comes to insults it's the thought that counts
Anne Ursu
#74. I made the same mistake that people have been making since the beginning of time, thinking that you can change yourself just by going somewhere else. Meu Deus, I sound like a self-help book.
Luiza Sauma
#75. Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.
Mitch Albom
#76. No one ever escapes Gloucester. Kids go off to college and settle somewhere else. But they always come back. If Gloucester is all you know, every place else seems a little phony.
Mark Kurlansky
#77. Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
Brian Eno
#78. The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
Nhat Hanh
#79. One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#80. I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.
Sigourney Weaver
#81. I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.
Sebastian Pinera
#82. In my youth I believed in somewhere else
I put my faith in travel
now I am becoming my own tree
W.S. Merwin
#83. I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.
Jorge Posada
#84. Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
Antonio Porchia
#85. This is what I believe about performing: There is no reason to be on stage - there is no reason to be there - if you're not going to put all your baggage somewhere else and just be honest. Whatever you're doing - screw it up, do great - just be there, and be honest. That's the most important thing.
Michael Moschen
#86. It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.
Walter Kirn
#87. Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#88. And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
James Lee Burke
#89. So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
G. Willow Wilson
#90. Magic = Lie! Magic It is based on lies and fast movements. The idea is to make the folks around you to look where you want this objective and you say some kind a words like "Shizama Lqma" and you just do the other part
and you make it appear from somewhere else and that's all!
Deyth Banger
#91. Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure - he is always successful, just like me.
Rajneesh
#92. Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
Zachary Knighton
#93. Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
Dolly Parton
#94. I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.
Arca
#95. I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.
Geri Halliwell
#96. Our town was small enough that I never developed a healthy fear of strangers. To me, they were exciting things, gift-wrapped and full of possibilities, the sweet smell of somewhere else wafting from them like perfume.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#97. You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.
Nikki Jean
#98. I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.
Julian Schnabel
#99. In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.
James Dickey
#100. Somewhere inside me, there was still preserved a broad, open space, untouched, for Naoko and no one else.
Haruki Murakami
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