Quotes about somewhere
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“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

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History

“Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I can't believe you married a justice nymph and have yet to learn anything from her. There are always three sides to every memory, Z. Yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Truth, Justice, Learning, Memory

“We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Peace

“It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

Help

“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.”

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer

Thinking

“Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

World, Chance, Parting

“I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Feeling, Time, Season

“People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

Happiness, People, Thinking, Past

“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Books, Dogs, Reading, Cute

“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

1910s
Source: "The Road Not Taken", st. 4 (1916)

Age, Travel

“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else”

Lev Grossman book The Magician's Land

Source: The Magician's Land

Books, World, Feeling

“tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Love, Hurt

“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Sadness, Hurt, Night

“You bled on the Speaking stars… I bet there's a law somewhere about that.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Law, Star

“That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Kelsier, Chapter 13
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006)

“Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Universe

“If you don't know where you are going you will end up somewhere else”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

Variant: If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Source: The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Effort

“Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced… that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”

Tony Hillerman book Coyote Waits

Source: Coyote Waits

“A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Drop Dead Gorgeous

“Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

Way

“I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Dead

“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?”

James Hilton Random Harvest

Source: Random Harvest

Idea

“You guys are going somewhere or just going?”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Guy

“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”

James Gleick book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Source: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Men, People

“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Life

“Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Silence, Rage, Reading

“I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong… to measure yourself at least once.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Life, Feeling, Strong, Reading

“homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Life

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Heart

“Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

“Somewhere out there the world must have an end.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

World

“I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who’ve hurt you. (Kiara)
You’re doing that now. (Nykyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Pain, People, Hurt

“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) English-American childrens' playwright and author

“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

Search, Waiting

“Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Sex, Way, Sense

“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”

Edward Abbey book The Monkey Wrench Gang

Source: The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

Solitude, Freedom, Madness

“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

God, Feeling, Winter

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Feeling, Hurt, Romantic

“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Way, Change

“If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.”

George Carlin book Last Words

Source: Last Words

People, Universe, Time

“This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Personality

“She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere."

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Health, Sense

“Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Dragon Heir

“Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.”

Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

Question

“… in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”

Dean Koontz book Dead and Alive

Source: Dead and Alive

Imagination, Universe

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”

J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) English writer

Waiting, Good Morning, Moving On

“There still might be a place for us somewhere.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“… there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann”

Suzanne Brockmann (1960) American writer

Source: Dark of Night

Night

“K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

History, Personality

“Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Dreams

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

World, Victory

“Maybe… because for the first time… there was a chance I could keep him,” I say.
“So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?”
“Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

People, Kiss, Chance, Time

“I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Sweep: Volume 1

Reading

“I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.”

Francis Spufford (1964) British writer

Source: The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading

Silence, Reading, Housing

“It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

Learning

“It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

Happiness, Thinking, Time

“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

World, Despair

“Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.”

Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer

Source: A Book of Simple Living

Happiness

“Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Women, People, World, Suffering

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Personality

“And exactly how old are you MacRieve?"
"Twelve hundreds, give or take."
"Great Hekate, you're a relic. Don't you have a museum exhibit to be in somewhere?”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge

“Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Future, Perfection

“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 2

World, Travel, Change

“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

Health, Search, Waiting

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match… Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Love, Life

“I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

People, Thinking

“Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!"
"You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Variant: Jackass!" Eve yelled.

"You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome," Shane said.
Source: Last Breath

People

“They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Music

“Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Home, Problem, Bird

“I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

War with Honour http://books.google.com/books?id=QmQDAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;I+wrote+somewhere+once+that+the+third+rate+mind+was+only+happy+when+it+was+thinking+with+the+majority+the+second+rate+mind+was+only+happy+when+it+was+with+the+minority+and+a+first+rate+mind+was+only+happy+when+it+was+thinking&quot;, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940).

Happiness, Thinking

“Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”

Lily Tuck (1938) American writer