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Quotes About Nowhere

if you wish to call the truth impossible, that is your privilege, but it will get you nowhere.
~ Isaac Asimov
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
~ Olympia Snowe
It's the closest place to nowhere that she can think of. And nowhere is exactly where she wants to be today.
~ Lisa Genova, Love Anthony
it's half-past nowhere everywhere.
~ Charles Bukowski
He didn't have any beliefs to speak of. A world that would deposit a child in a beer carton in the middle of nowhere seemed capable of you-name-it, but Dan did not think that you-name-it qualified as a belief.
~ Tom Drury
There is a difference between being put out and being put outdoors. If you are put out, you go somewhere else; if you are outdoors, there is no place to go.
~ Toni Morrison
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
~ Carl Sagan
Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For him, oblivion is when something goes into nothing and nowhere is the place where something can come out of nothing.
~ Carlton Mellick III
You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go
~ Jack Kerouac
In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
You can't be hiding away up here hoping she'll forget. Like I told you, bucko: once a woman gets an idea, it's going nowhere.
~ Tana French
The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; he has no real relationship to anything.
~ David Newman
Pas...de...lieu...Rhône...que...nous
~ L.J. Smith
You can't point to this joy, Jordy. You'd have to point everywhere at once. And if you point everywhere at once, then you're not really pointing anywhere at all." I
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Then he was wrong, Hurry; very wrong. A man can enjoy plunder peaceably nowhere.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.
~ Shea Hembrey
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.
~ Laura Esquivel
I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
~ Kate Atkinson
Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.
~ John Crowe Ransom
The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is 'body' and that which is not 'body' is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Transhumanism encapsulates a long-lived error among the headliners of science: in a world without a destination, we cannot even break ground on our Tower of Babel, and no amount of rush and hurry on our part will change that. That we are going nowhere is not a curable condition; that we must go nowhere at the fastest possible velocity just might be curable, though probably not. And what difference would it make to retard our progress to nowhere?
~ Thomas Ligotti
It would have been the middle of nowhere if it had been closer to other places.
~ Tim Dorsey