Somewhere Sometime Quotes

#1. The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

Larry Niven

#2. There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Ian McDonald

#3. Somewhere, sometime, somebody taught her to question everything - though it might have been a good thing if he'd also taught her to question the act of questioning.

Wallace Stegner

#4. You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Carew Papritz

#5. Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people - "base.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Henry handed the record to his old friend, who draped it across his chest. His eyes closed as if he were listening to the music play somewhere,sometime long ago.

Jamie Ford

#7. Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, someplace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it.

James Jones

#8. You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

Ernst Zundel

#9. What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime.

Terence McKenna

#10. If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Melinda Gates

#11. One must begin somewhere, sometime, to let go of the bitterness, or be eaten alive and the marrow sucked out.

Jan Karon

#12. Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

Andre Dubus III

#13. Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them

Danielle Steel

#14. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

Cameron Mackintosh

#15. But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

Robin McKinley

#16. The storm walked around the hills on legs of lightning, shouting and grumbling.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Gautama Buddha

#18. I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

Christian Louboutin

#19. Jesus, you talk too much.

Carrie Vaughn

#20. The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

#21. If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you ... you won't be able to walk.

Kentaro Miura

#22. What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Peter Abrahams

#23. If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

Margaret Atwood

#24. There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#25. It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

Zack De La Rocha

#26. What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

Eckhart Tolle

#27. Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

Oscar Wilde

#28. Still I feel a rush of gladness from being done with that bunker, that crypt. I burst up into the aboveground, drinking air and daylight like a surfacing diver. I

Ben H. Winters

#29. Sometime in 2009, a few Romanians compromised the sandwich chain Subway. Over the next 2 years, they managed to steal somewhere between $3 million and $10 million, an amount that would allow them to eat fresh for quite some time.

Matthew Monte

#30. Five inches of snow in five inch heels, you can't look sexy and you can't look like you know what you're doing because you're fall.

Mila Kunis

#31. Gotta bounce," I say, remembering that's what I heard someone say to someone sometime somewhere, at school or maybe it was on TV, or in a movie, probably not even from this decade, but who cares, all I know is I have to get away before I evaporate or crumple or cry.

Jandy Nelson

#32. Christians should not compromise in hating sin, says Lewis. Rather we should hate the sins in others in the same way we hate them in ourselves: being sorry the person has done such things and hoping that somehow, sometime, somewhere, that person will be cured.

Philip Yancey

#33. Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and dodged a ginormous freaking cow and spun the car like the teacups at Disney World and we didn't die?

John Green

#34. I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

Brad Carson

#35. Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

Rachel Caine