Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has "struck out."”
Source: Casey at the Bat, Lines 49-52.
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 201
Context: What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage
“Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.”
Robert Charles Wilson book Spin
Source: Spin (2005), p. 1 (opening words)
“Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.”
Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men (2005)
“There's a light somewhere.
It may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.”
Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author
Journal, 1932-1939 (Paris: Table ronde, 1947) p. 278; Adrienne Foulke (trans.) Second Thoughts (Plainview, NY: Books for Libraries Press, [1961] 1973) p. 148.
Context: Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
