Outside Quotes

4687 Outside quotes by 3152 unique authors

Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I… — Marguerite Duras
You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is… — Annie Dillard
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying… — Khaled Hosseini
This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body. — Jennifer Weiner
you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness! — John Bytheway
No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your… — Jean Ferris
When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide when his eyes are black as crow? where… — Patrick Rothfuss
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments… — Milan Kundera
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks. — Pat Barker
The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's.… — Jenny Downham
There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know… — Ram Dass
And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that… — Franz Kafka
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in… — William Shakespeare
What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter… — Michael Ondaatje
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,… — Mark Twain
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical… — John Cage
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad… — Carl Sagan
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by… — Tom Stoppard
If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind… — Malcolm Gladwell
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only… — Shannon Hale
Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all. — Margaret Atwood
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… — Diane Setterfield

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