The Stranded Quotes

#1. The stranded Daoine Sidhe knights of the Dark Court gathered at the ring of ancient standing stones under the pale light of the harvest moon.
Whenever the Daoine Sidhe gathered, they raised the natural energies of the world around them.

Thea Harrison

#2. The last thing I wanted was to look down at the stranded face of my teenager. A pretty girl. Her whole death was now ahead of her.

Markus Zusak

#3. Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board, and we can take you anywhere you want to go. My name is Stan Shunpike, and I will be your conductor this eve -

J.K. Rowling

#4. Trump was praising Operation Wetback - a 1954 endeavor in which Mexicans were rounded up and dumped in the wilderness, where they were stranded without food or possessions and 88 of them died in the heat.) These

Jon Ronson

#5. Youths are passed through schools that don't teach, then forced to search for jobs that don't exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

Huey Newton

#6. Wonderful. I'm stranded with the least creative Ramblers.

M.L. LeGette

#7. Austin sniggered. Barge full of stranded convicts, I'm sure we're top priority for the Empire.

Joe Schreiber

#8. I am five, I will never understand
why we are stranded in our selves
but in this moment I know
my own story
is understanding our singleness
that I am destined to move my body and time
into the body-time
the story
of Others.

Sharon Doubiago

#9. There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

Esperanza Spalding

#10. The late afternoon sun, trapped beneath a wall of pewter, stained the clouds a yellowish gray, making the sky unusually bright. It felt surreal, as if the horizon had disappeared beyond the hills. She was stranded in a world of glass.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. Instead of slapping her head, I do what they tell you to do: count to ten. Only I do it the gifted way: 123+456+789+10. When your sister has hurtled you swerving into the darkness, stranded you at a funeral home, and threatens to get you in trouble, just stop and count to 1,378 before you respond.

Jo Ann Beard

#12. I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store ... You deserve better.

Michael Moore

#13. You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

Al Yankovic

#14. We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Winston Churchill

#15. You are stranded in a culture where you can't trust many, you don't fully understand the language, and you can't read the signs - and at the same time you try not to let on that you can't do those things.

Kim De Blecourt

#16. In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

Brad Thor

#17. Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

Lady Gaga

#18. Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.

Mick Jagger

#19. Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out.

Evander Holyfield

#20. Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#21. Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Edmund Burke

#22. We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people's minds.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. No one ever does anything but what he wants to do - 'enjoys' - within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. You couldn't think of after, you only thought of now, and come to think of it, you didn't do that either -- you were left with pools of memory, each stranded from the next by time pulling forward like a tide.

Nam Le

#25. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

Henry David Thoreau

#26. The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.

Barbara Hambly

#27. Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and body cheerfully stranded in a single location - this is the curse of the human race!

Marisha Pessl

#28. I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

Al Yankovic

#29. The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

William Arthur Ward

#30. What good is it, being two stranded British fops in the heart of America, if we don't announce it on Halloween by wearing enormous fuzzy hats for the purpose of our humiliation?

Red Tash

#31. If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up detoured, lost, or possibly stranded on the side of the highway. Our positive attitude keeps our battery powered and our gas tank full, so that we can make it in one piece to our destination.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#32. No intellect is orphaned, despite all the foundling hearts. All sons are born stranded because all fathers are sons. Every child is told, even those suckled on the teats of wolves.

R. Scott Bakker

#33. She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there
like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

Katherine Paterson

#34. It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

Anthony Foxx

#35. Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

John Knowles

#36. What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

John Banville

#37. When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What's more, there is no one to save you because you've turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system.

Carlos Wallace

#38. But then, you see the cracks in the system. You begin to question. You realize that some of the answers you spent your young life memorizing were simply wrong.You realize that those who had promised to lead you to Jesus had left you stranded in the desert instead (Relevant Magazine).

Micah J. Murray

#39. Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired and bewildered: we all wanted our mothers.

Marisa De Los Santos

#40. Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

John Gray

#41. If it makes you feel better, though, Basil is the first on my list if we're ever stranded in deep space and forced to eat one another. Aeons are most delicious.

Rachel Bach

#42. You can't lead people to where you've not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!

Israelmore Ayivor

#43. Who I was ad who I had beed disconnected, leaving me stranded somewhere in the middle.

Alexandra Bracken

#44. But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

Rachel Cohn

#45. The storm in our private lives had picked him up and put him out of place. Me, too. I, too, had been picked up from one place and set down in another. I, too, had been stranded. We both needed help resettling.

E.L. Konigsburg

#46. It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

Jessica Hagedorn

#47. 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

Carlton Cuse

#48. I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

Helena Christensen

#49. She sees where she is, she's here, by herself, she's stranded in the future. She doesn't know how to get back.

Margaret Atwood

#50. I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

Oskar Kokoschka

#51. Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

Al Roker

#52. All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall." - Vivekananda

Ram Dass

#53. Okay. You're stranded in a deserted train station during the zombie apocalypse. Quick, which book do you have with you?" "Hopefully The Zombie Survival Guide.

Aly Martinez

#54. As they slithered up the muddy bank, scores of tiny silver fish that had been feasting on the open wounds were slow to relinquish their hold and were drawn out with the carcasses. Stranded upon the mud-banks, they flopped and quivered like stars that had fallen to earth.

Wilbur Smith

#55. I have realized that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it.
That we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it.

Buddy Wakefield

#56. Being under stress is like being stranded in a body of water. If you panic, it will cause you to flail around so that the water rushes into your lungs and creates further distress. Yet, by calmly collecting yourself and using controlled breathing you remain afloat with ease.

Alaric Hutchinson

#57. We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked.

Jennifer Doudna

#58. It'd be okay,though.Jack knew where I was. He'd get help and bring it back ... just like when he'd disappeared and left me stranded in the Center for two days.
I was so screwed.

Kiersten White

#59. Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.

Edward P. Jones

#60. The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

Pat Robertson

#61. Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.

Gautama Buddha

#62. Drifting away from one's culture leaves one stranded in the middle of nowhere till the time his suffocation strangles him.

Q.M. Sidd

#63. Maze: "I'm alerting HQ. Stand by."
*on the private comlink*
Corr: "How are you Omega? Can we help? We're really concerned that you're stranded on a shabla rock surrounded by an infinite number of natives who'll cut your gett'se off when they haul you screaming from the summit.

Karen Traviss

#64. little cottage in a far-flung spot on the coast of Ireland is an international incident that leaves the family stranded and dependent on themselves for their survival. Facing starvation,

Susan Kiernan-Lewis

#65. Many set themselves the aim of rescuing the indifferent and the lazy - and end up lost themselves. The flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. -

Neal Stephenson

#66. You are a universe, he reverentially whispered, and then his game began. A game of pushing me to the brink, of building the anticipation ... and leaving me stranded in the midst of it.

Chloe Neill

#67. Stanbrook once told me," he said, "that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific people who are left stranded in the land of the living, unable for all eternity to answer the plea

Mary Balogh

#68. The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.

Walter Kirn

#69. Sorry, but all I can think about are those people who were stranded in the snow and had to eat one another.

J. Lynn

#70. Flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. - John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Step

Neal Stephenson

#71. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

Joseph Conrad

#72. It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

Robert Goolrick

#73. Hello?' said the taxi driver, and I realized that it's all very well having an internal monologue, but it does tend to leave the other person a bit stranded, conversationally.

Danny Wallace

#74. I want to remember that the sky is so gorgeously large, I feel stranded beneath it.

Anis Mojgani

#75. It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world

Sharon Kay Penman

#76. The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left stranded and forgotten on the riverbank, at low tide.

Lia Mills

#77. I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

Martha Reeves

#78. They were stranded on the opposite sides of death, at least for now, and that was all there was to it.

Mary Balogh

#79. With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

Lennart Meri

#80. sometimes we need the world and all the people on her to abandon us so we can turn to the One who will never leave us stranded.

Aisha Mirza

#81. I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.

Keri Hulme

#82. Todd drove into camp in one of the vehicles, saying he needed to take the can of gas out to Katie, who was stranded in Baby Hummer.

Robin Jones Gunn

#83. the civilization which had given birth to Bigger contained no spiritual sustenance, had created no culture which could hold and claim his allegiance and faith, had sensitized him and had left him stranded,

Richard Wright

#84. I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between.

Nadja Spiegelman

#85. I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#86. The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.

Walker Percy

#87. Before you find yourself stranded in the woods with a cranky apex predator, ask yourself: Do I really want to go on a camping trip with a vampire? The answer is probably going to be no.

Molly Harper

#88. One of the first things I learned. You get stranded, look for water. Then find a place to protect yourself.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#89. Reading...can make you fell like not one lone cell stranded in the desolation of the world, but one of eight billion cells conjoined by the world, all hearts echoing the others in the song of one enormous heart.

Randall Silvis

#90. I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

W.C. Fields

#91. When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet, they must rely solely on each other, the Force, and their awesome martial skills to prevail.

John Jackson Miller

#92. You spend long moments worrying and wondering only to see the wash up on the shore of a sea of wasted hours. Only to see them stranded on the island of foolishness. He wants that time back. He wants that energy back.

Travis Thrasher

#93. It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

W. Clement Stone

#94. Fifty stranded whales are a tangible crisis with a visible solution. There's camaraderie in the process, a Free Willy fantasy, an image of Flipper in everyone's mind. There's nothing romantic about waking up a man on a park bench and making him walk to a shelter.

Marina Keegan

#95. What else is God good for other than a distraction from the mire we're all stranded in?

Hannah Kent

#96. The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

Mason Cooley

#97. I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

Norman Cousins

#98. Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

Bil Keane

#99. People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Carrie Fisher

#100. Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets.

Bruce Springsteen