Somewhere Else Quotes

378 quotes by 316 authors

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to… — Chinua Achebe
What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else,… — Erykah Badu
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of… — Samuel Beckett
I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason,… — Malin Akerman
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that… — Nick Cave
I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere… — John Cleese
In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating… — Leon Panetta
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people… — James A. Baldwin
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his… — Sylvia Plath
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom. — Mark Twain
I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped… — James Rollins
This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else. — Rajneesh
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess
If you meditate, meditation is so beautiful, who bothers about the result? And if you bother about the result, meditation is not possible. This result… — Rajneesh
The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have… — Rajneesh
One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond… — Thomas Jefferson
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its… — Eudora Welty
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come… — Gerald Brenan
The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good. — Charles Bukowski

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