Outside Quotes

4687 Outside quotes by 3152 unique authors

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection. — Truman Capote
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window. — Nicholas Sparks
The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human. — Michel Houellebecq
I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply… — Bernhard Schlink
Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and… — Ann Brashares
If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my… — Gustave Flaubert
The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it.… — Alice Sebold
I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers. — Natasha Friend
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid,… — J. G. Ballard
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a… — Markus Zusak
I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one… — Julie Gregory
The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves… — Erwin McManus
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes,… — Leo Tolstoy
The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he… — Sherman Alexie
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read… — Karen Marie Moning
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to… — Tom Robbins
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a… — Donald Miller
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death… — John Updike
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us… — Mortimer Adler
This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was… — Richard Brautigan
All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who… — J R Ward
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a… — Donald Miller
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student… — Rebecca Solnit
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his… — Milan Kundera

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