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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Energy, Electricity, Electrical

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wish, Isolation, Melancholy

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• Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Religious, Organization, Tolerance

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• It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

  David Lee Roth

  People, Wow, Action

  "Van Halen's David Lee Roth: 'I've always been a show-off' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Mick Brown, www.theguardian.com. 1984.

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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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• What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

  Erykah Badu

  Interviews, Articles, Furious

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• I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, America, Trying

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• It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Birthday, Careers, Ironic

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• It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Ungrateful, Wish, Moments

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• 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.

  Al Franken

  Years, Want, Messages

  "Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: ‘You Are Their Product’" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Life, Journey, Apathy

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

  Mark Twain

  Book, People, Wish

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