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Quotes About Elsewhere

Viaggi per rivivere il tuo passato? - era a questo punto la domanda del Kan, che poteva anche essere formulata cosi: - Viaggi per ritrovare il tuo futuro? E la risposta di Marco: - L'altrove è uno specchio in negativo. Il viaggiatore riconosce il poco che è suo, scoprendo il molto che non ha avuto e non avrà.
~ Italo Calvino
Viaggi per rivivere il tuo passato? - era a questo punto la domanda del Kan, che poteva anche essere formulata così: - Viaggi per ritrovare il tuo futuro? E la risposta di Marco: - L'altrove è uno specchio in negativo. Il viaggiatore riconosce il poco che è suo, scoprendo il molto che non ha avuto e non avrà.
~ Italo Calvino
Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. "Journeys to relive your past?" was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also have been formulated: "Journeys to recover your future?" And Marco's answer was: "Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
~ Italo Calvino
Look," I said. "Something that needs your attention. Over there. Away from here.
~ John Scalzi
Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else.
~ John Steinbeck
Forgive me for not being there, my mind has found a place called else where.
~ Unknown
Russians and Saudis both expressed frustration with the leadership of their countries, and as many Saudis as Russians told me they would happily move someplace else.
~ Martin Lindstrom
And you can see her beauty. If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of confusion.
~ Matt Haig
fear-mongering "seems like patronizing neo-colonialism to people elsewhere."92
~ Michael Shellenberger
Keep reports out of production Reports can, and should, be served elsewhere. Don't jeopardize
~ Unknown
In all the cities of this year I have longed for the other city.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
stepping them into that elsewhere from which all music takes its origins.
~ Niall Williams
The purpose of our Christian training is to get us into the right relationship to the "needs" of God and His will. Once God's "needs" in us have been met, He will open the way for us to accomplish His will, meeting His "needs" elsewhere.
~ Oswald Chambers
Yes. No. Maybe. Elsewhere. Soon.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
stories were told here, but they happened somewhere else.
~ Patrick Rothfuss