Somewhere Else Quotes

• Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Travel

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.63, A&C Black

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  There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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• You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Get Away

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• Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

  Antonio Porchia

  Self, Bears, Found

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• If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ifs, Universe

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.
  Not all those who wander are lost.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wind, Lost, Wander

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• What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else

  Carly Fiorina

  President, Blame, Disappointing

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• Listen; this world is the lunatic's sphere ,
  Don't always agree it's real,
  Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door
  My address is somewhere else.

  Hafez

  Real, Doors, Feet

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

  Mary Oliver

  Water, Want, Stones

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

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Space

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

  Alex Turner

  Ideas, Dreamy, Bits

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• 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

  Self, Pathways, Made

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 07, 2016

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• The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

  Lionel Shriver

  Airports, Different, Way

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.18, Counterpoint Press

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• I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

  David Nicholls

  Want, Moments, Like You

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• It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  One Thing

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• and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Community, Would Be

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• She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends." "Not some things. Not the bad things. They never go away." "Yes, they do. If you let them, they go away. Not as fast as we'd like sometimes, but they end too. What doesn't end is the way we feel about each other. Even when you're all grown up and somewhere else, you can remember what a good time we had together. Even when you're in the middle of bad things and they never seem to be changing, you can remember me. And I'll remember you.

  Torey L. Hayden

  Remember You, Remembers You, Together

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• Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

  Mark Twain

  Book, People, Wish

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• 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 up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

  James Rollins

  Travel, Crazy, Writing

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• Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Wonderland, Want

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 2 (1872)

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• There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.

  E. B. White

  New York, Passion, Night

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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• The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hangover, Mind, Brutal

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• What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Sleep, Voice

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• ...I said I was sorry.” “Be sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.

  Laini Taylor

  Sorry, Said

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Moving, One Thing

  Cecelia Ahern (2009). “There's No Place Like Here”, p.83, Hachette UK

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