Somewhere Else Quotes - Page 14

• What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

  Anne Carson

  Names, Greek, Adjectives

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

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

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Appreciate, Sometimes

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• Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

  Michael Connelly

  Running, Dream, Anchors

  Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Light, Snow, Magic

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Travel, Horizon, World

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you’d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you’re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe I’ll make you fall in love with economics.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Class

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• We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the biulding block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.

  Libba Bray

  Baby, Stars, Memories

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• I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Pages, Happens

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159).

  John Bingham

  Running, Journey, Thinking

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• When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

  Norton Juster

  Home, School, Way

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.9, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Things I Love, Greedy

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• During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set. While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else. By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way. I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’

  Akira Kurosawa

  Believe, Mean, Eye

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• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

  Samuel Beckett

  Our Generation, Laughing, Tears

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Understanding, Mind

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• The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

  Mike Love

  Problem, Popularity, Ifs

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• If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

  Seth Godin

  Choices, Proud, Ifs

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• And when our sun explodes and we are all destroyed, we'll be rocks and chunks of I am not sure what, and maybe we'll rain down on somewhere else.

  Joey Comeau

  Rain, Rocks, Sun

  Joey Comeau (2012). “The Complete Lockpick Pornography”, p.116, ECW Press

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• If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

  David Halberstam

  World, Safe, Hard

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• I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me

  Dick Francis

  Mother, Running, Two

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• President Obama is currently on a week-long trip to Africa, where he will promote freedom, democracy, and economic opportunity. I guess he figured it hasn't worked here - so try it somewhere else.

  Jay Leno

  Opportunity, Long, Democracy

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• Here, when I say I never want to be without you,
  somewhere else I am saying
  I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you
  in each of the places we meet,
  
  in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying
  and resurrected.
  When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life,
  in each place and forever

  Bob Hicok

  Mistake, Hands, Forever

  Bob Hicok (1998). “Plus Shipping: Poems”, Boa Editions

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• It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

  Robert Harris

  Flower, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hate, Real, Order

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Little Sister: A Novel”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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