O Quotes
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.”
Source: The Essential Rumi (2020): Translations By Coleman Barks with John Moyne
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.”
Source: The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus
“Out comes everything: piles of blistered shishito peppers, golden fried sandwiches of taro root stuffed with minced pork, bowls of dashi-braised daikon, a tower of yakitori, including my favorite, tsukune, a charcoal-kissed chicken meatball rich with fat and cartilage, meant to be dipped in raw egg yolk. My chopsticks cannot move fast enough.”
Source: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
“OUT. CUT IT ALL OUT. Cut out my father. Cut out my mother. Cut out missing Ellis. Cut out the man in the underpass, cut out Fucking Frank, the men downstairs; the people on the street with too many people inside them, cut out hungry, and sad and tired, and being nobody and unpretty and unloved, just cut it all out, get smaller and smaller until I was nothing.”
Source: Girl in Pieces
“Out from behind the darkness viewed, the light again renewed. May strife and worry cease, with warming rays of joy and peace.”
“Out from behind the desk where he’d been sitting, hidden by the piles of books, appeared a bespectacled, green-eyed man in a green plaid suit. His thick white hair was shaggy and mussed, his nose was rather large and lumpy like a vegetable, and although it was clear he had recently shaved, he appeared to have done so without benefit of a mirror, for here and there upon his neck and chin were nicks from a razor, and occasional white whiskers that he’d missed altogether. This was Mr. Benedict.”
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
“Out here a man settles his own problems.”
Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon
“Out here
are books and magazines-
asleep, carrying the entire world in them.”
“Out here
are books and magazines-
asleep, carrying the entire world in them,
and standing there
are walls and windows, staring at me,
and leaves of letters here-- about to go melting
quite like the heart itself,
and photographs-- lost in themselves
as if-
they're thinking of someone.”
“Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.”
“Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don't worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.”
“Out here, it was as if the world had backed off from them for a spell. They believed in fatedness and and meant-to-be's. They believed in the dark star that was theirs to steer by.”
Source: Night Boat to Tangier
“Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.”
“Out here on the water, it’s a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.”
Source: Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
“Out here,
the open night is my church,
the trees are my congregation,
the stars are my angels and
the moon is the only god that I know.”
Source: dead, but dreaming
“Out here, we let ourselves be imperfect. We let ourselves have the room to make mistakes—sometimes tragic mistakes—then we allow ourselves forgiveness. Within that forgiveness, we try to be better than what we were.”
Source: The Birth of Anarchy: Vagabond's Sequel
“Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there’s only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.”
Source: Parched
“Out here, when the sea rises, we’re brothers. How will you face your family if you leave them to drown?”
Source: Code Gaia: Emergence
“Out here, where the sand is so white,
so Westernized, how could I not
sink into it
& burn with questions
like what am I doing here
I am in the wrong book
I am in the wrong era
I am not Dorothea
I am Analicia”
Source: Virgin
“Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.”
“Out here, without the clouds of cigar smoke, there was nothing to compete with the scent of the rich wood panelling, the preparation of savory foods somewhere off in the house and, over that, the subtle sweetness of the more polite Argyll's cologne. It wasn't like the bottle I slipped under Charlie's pillow every Christmas Eve, not quite so familiar. This had a sweeter edge to it, the difference between flowers and berries.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone (Hqn)
“Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.”
Source: The Quick and the Dead
“Out here, due process is a bullet.”
Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon
“Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.”
Source: Across the Great Barrier
“Out here, it's just you and the ball.”
“Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.”
Source: Uglies
“Out in Africa examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same sex desire, as it is at odds with an apparent context of heteronormativity and emphasis on reproduction, in a pan-African context, from the nineteenth century to the present.”
“Out, in Henry’s view, is a madhouse. Historians of social lunacy will confirm that this is literally the case, that the mad have been let out of the asylums and allowed to walk the streets. But Henry doesn’t mean that. By mad, nerve-strung Henry means revving when you’re stationary and driving with your hand on your horn – read that sexually if you like, but Henry has in mind incessant honking – he means text messaging the person standing next to you, or being wired up so that you can speak into thin air, conversing with God is how it looks to Henry, or wearing running shoes when you’re not running, or coming up to Henry with a bad face and a dog on a piece of string and asking him for money. Why would Henry give someone with a bad face money? Because of the dog? Because of the string?”
Source: The Making of Henry
“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.”
“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
“Out in Saxe-Coburg Street she stood still for a moment and looked at the gardens. He kissed me, she thought. He made the move; I didn't. The thought was an overwhelming one and invested the everyday world about her, the world of the square, of trees, of people walking by, with a curious glow, a chiaroscuro which made everything precious. It was the feeling, she imagined, that one had when one vouchsafed a vision. Everything is changed, becomes more blessed, making the humblest of surroundings a holy place.”
Source: The Right Attitude to Rain
“Out in the country it was not uncommon to discover that she had slipped away, alone, out to the lake, maybe, or down to the cellar, where once I found her sitting in the big marooned sleigh, reading, her fur coat thrown over her knees. Things would have been terrible strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King, and Joker.”
Source: The Secret History
“Out in the desert what doesn't kill you just pisses you off and will probably kill you the next time.”
Source: The Never-Open Desert Diner
“Out in the distance, along the horizon of the steel-colored water, a whale-watching boat slowly made its way into the harbor. It imperceptibly moved in a straight-line past Bug Light. Nicknamed "America's Hometown," Plymouth was unique. It was a place where the old and new, the dead and the living, the ancient and the modern seamlessly coexisted. Its shores were a haven - an opportunity - for any who were willing to come and make it their home.”
Source: To Fill a Jar With Water
“Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head.”
Source: Sleeper's Run
“Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.”
“Out in the field, sitting on the grass, the hard-core omnivores are hunched around and over the cadaver of a creature they've courageously downed, greedily feasting on its flesh, while furtively looking around in all directions.. one of them has thrown in a few wilted sprigs of asparagus and a bucketful of ketchup to sweeten the deal.
The vegetarians have caught an animal, chased her baby over to the omnivores, and are suckling from her nipples, while others feast on a basket of gathered birds eggs.
The vegans have just ploughed through a mono crop of wheat, and soy and are enjoying their tofu burgers.
Meanwhile those radical fruitarian extremists are in the cherry trees, looking on in wide-eyed bewilderment..”
“Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.”
“Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.”
Source: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: A Novel
“Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man, two small barrels of beer, and a very large handbell. The men were purlmen, Grandfather Nat told me, selling hot beer in the cold mornings - to the men on the colliers, or on any other craft thereabout.”
Source: The Complete Works of Arthur Morrison (Including Martin Hewitt Detective Mysteries, Sketches of the Old London Slum & Tales of the Supernatural) - Illustrated: Adventures of Martin Hewitt, The Red Triangle, Tales of Mean Streets, The Dorrington Deed Box, The Green Eye of Goona, Divers Vanities, Green Ginger, Fiddle o' Dreams, The Shadows Around Us & more
“Out in the stone-pile the toad squatted with its glowing jewel-eyes and, maybe, its memories. I don't know if you'll admit a toad could have memories. But I don't know, either, if you'll admit there was once witchcraft in America. Witchcraft doesn't sound sensible when you think of Pittsburgh and subways and movie houses, but the dark lore didn't start in Pittsburgh or Salem either; it goes away back to dark olive groves in Greece and dim, ancient forests in Brittany and the stone dolmens of Wales. All I'm saying, you understand, is that the toad was there, under its rocks, and inside the shack Pete was stretching on his hard bed like a cat and composing himself to sleep.
("Before I Wake...")”
Source: Masters of Horror
“Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.”
Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin
“Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.”
“Out in the wilderness, nature is your translator.”
“Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!”
Source: Timequake
“Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.”
“Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.”
“Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic