Best Somewhere Else Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.”

Art Dream Artist California Belonging Museums Dreamer Artists San Francisco Escape Somewhere Else Belong Museum Somewhere Art Museum Art Museums

Book:I'll Meet You There

Source: I'll Meet You There

“I let every grain of sand slip through my fingers As the wind carried them away; Some drops of rain absorbed by the sand, Some dissolved in the sea. I'd go back carrying no traces Of where I'd been, But the sand settled between my fingers, And the grains falling off from my toes. I wouldn't soil the carpet on the floor If only I'd known...”

Life Break Beach Secrets Escape Somewhere Else Hide Away Misfit Nowhere

Author:Sanhita Baruah

“Go peddle your bullshit somewhere else because I am not buying it anymore.”

“Elsewhere is within; a good place to look if you’re lost…”

Lost Somewhere Else Lost And Confused Internalize Internal Beauty

Author:Nanette L. Avery

“Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")”

“I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.”

Parent Very Good Staying Somewhere Else Rebellious Older Sister

Author:Frances O'Connor

“My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.”

Wells Mother Father Ireland Scotland Somewhere Else Newark

Author:Ali Smith

“Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.”

People New York Somewhere Else

Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“Well, higher-income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they can move their investments. They can stop investing. They can stop working. They don't need to work. They're higher-income people.”

People Ifs Want Needs Wells Moving Values Pay Higher Taxes Investment Investing Conservative Income Somewhere Else Conservative Values

Author:Rick Santorum

“I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.”

“If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.”

Ifs Want Years Use Easy Figures Messages Developing Target Ads Email Somewhere Else Port

Author:Al Franken

“Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.”

Hollywood Somewhere Else

Author:Poppy Montgomery

“A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”

Ideas Bits Somewhere Else Dreamy

Author:Alex Turner

“There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.”

Giving Hard Games Winning Sleep Careers Cases Our Lives Sacrifice Hard Work Giving Up Notion Accomplish Stealing Zero Somewhere Else Zero Sum Game

Author:Maynard Webb

“I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.”

Knows Feels Doors Letters Clarity Rejection Rejects Arrows Somewhere Else Closing True Life Closed Doors Rejection Letters

Author:Tama J. Kieves

“Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary, and exactly where you are supposed to be (otherwise you would be somewhere else). Be at peace with where you are while taking your next step toward where you want to be.”

Thinking Knows Want Would Be Next Steps Right Now Supposed To Be Temporary Where You Are Somewhere Else Next Steps Wherever You Are Thinking Differently

Author:Hal Elrod

“I sometimes forget that life is fragile. The fact that I have more time to dream my dreams and take my ease is no reason at all to disregard the moment I'm in by preferring to be somewhere else. I have to remind myself that wherever I am. . . fast lane or slow lane, in traffic or out of traffic, racing or resting . . . God is there. He is in me, abiding in me, thus making it possible for me to be all there, myself.”

Sometimes Reason Moments God Facts Dream Life Is Forget Ease No Reason More Time Racing Fragile Traffic Somewhere Else Abiding Lanes Disregard God Is There Fast Lane Life Is Fragile

Author:Luci Swindoll

“The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.”

World Needs Mean Doe Stills Reason Whole Use Lying Purpose Order Natural Walks Creation Lessons Goodness Remains Wine Environmental Delight Somewhere Else Piety Mushrooms

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.”

Thinking Mind Sometimes Stage Scene Approach Shooting Lazy Somewhere Else Coverage Slipping Movie Making Slipping Away

Author:Jamie Bell

“Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.”

Inspirational Philosophy Space Philosopher Somewhere Else

Author:Rajneesh

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”

Life Should Found Journey Setting Settings Apathy Somewhere Else Spectacular Journeys And Paths

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.”

Want Water Stones Satisfied Somewhere Else

Author:Mary Oliver

“The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.”

Ifs Want I Can Lying Choices Energy Can Do Resources Committed Our Time Somewhere Else

Author:Roger Delano Hinkins

“Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.”

Death Right Now Paradise Within You Somewhere Else After Death

Author:Rajneesh

“If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.”

Ifs Should Kind Institutions Somewhere Else

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.”

Real Would Be Hate Order Individual Cities Ought Lucky Hollywood Structure Damn Get Better Los Angeles Mail Somewhere Else Catalogues

Book:The Little Sister: A Novel

Source: The Little Sister: A Novel

“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.”

Should Earth Asks Answers Numbers Growing Planets Moon Appeals Site Mars Somewhere Else Advancing

Author:Gerard K. O'Neill

“What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.”

Facts Dream Reality Caught Somewhere Else Homeboys

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Might Used Bits Baseball Towns Edges Intimacy Might Have Been Somewhere Else Toughness Letdowns

Author:David Cone

“The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.”

Happiness Courses Belief Somewhere Else

Author:Robert Holden

“I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.”

Thinking World Littles I Can Facts Problem Kids Strong Imagination Brain Creative Constant Very Strong Little Kid Somewhere Else Other Worlds Positive Things Problems In Life

Author:James Gunn

“If I have to move on from Newcastle, hopefully it will be to somewhere else”

Ifs Moving Hopefully Somewhere Else Newcastle

Author:Joe Kinnear

“They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division and if it sounds good when I hear it, then I'll take it. But I'm not going to say I'll take less (than the max) . . . Put it this way. I won't take a BMW from somebody when I know I can get a Maybach from somewhere else.”

Ifs Knows Way Years I Can Use Three Sound Numbers Basketball Division Three Years Somewhere Else Max Bmw

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.”

Thinking Want Made Artist Band Discovery Mark Responsible Labels Somewhere Else Being Responsible Another Time New Discoveries

Author:Steven Morrissey

“As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha”

Mind Looks Long Somewhere Else

Author:Bodhidharma

“Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.”

Beautiful Spirit Pursuit Endless Offering Stopping Somewhere Else

Author:Tara Brach

“I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.”

People Moments Rooms Commitment Overcoming Obstacles Commit Admire Somewhere Else

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.”

Should Found Now And Then Somewhere Else

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.”

Book Home Pleasant Somewhere Else Philadelphia

Author:Anna Quindlen

“When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here. In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.”

World Trying Mind Body Views This World Buddhism Wander Mind And Body Somewhere Else

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.”

Ifs Mind Use Blood Cold Paper Finding Yourself Packs Somewhere Else Discworld Small Gods

Book:Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.”

Way Looks Lasts Past Remember Land Cold Golden California Somewhere Else Old Ways Remembering The Past

Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.”

Equality Agendas Somewhere Else Undesirable

Book:Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

Source: Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

“Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.”

Past Cities Happened Preserves Canada Somewhere Else Montreal

Book:The Favorite Game: A Novel

Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel

“I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Children Kids Middle What If Robots Somewhere Else Thinking What If

Author:Darcey Steinke

“Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.”

Age America Old Age Getting Old Somewhere Else

Book:Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial

Source: Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial

“If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.”

Ifs Knows Feels Body Energy Attention Brain Focus Flow Stronger Shut Up Somewhere Else Relentless Transfers

Author:Jason Mraz

“Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.”

Persons Moments Happens Today Life Is Realizing Accepting Events Somewhere Else

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.”

Firsts Important Bigs Remember Work Streets Wall Shots Sells Somewhere Else Remember You Remembers You Big Shots

Book:Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom

Source: Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom

“Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.”

Knows Want Feels Size Feathers Shrinks Somewhere Else Dissatisfaction Backbone Peas

Book:The Shape of a Year

Source: The Shape of a Year

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