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  • When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.

  • At one point, we were stuck at the border of Peru and Colombia and met this large Haitian population that was stranded there without passports and couldn't move. We had this revelation that, as tourists, we were so free to move, and here was this other population who couldn't cross borders.

    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

  • My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

    Thinking   Whales   Wife  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.

    Character   Angel   Men  
  • I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

    Oskar Kokoschka, Marlborough Gallery (1981). “Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition”
  • What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

    Grief   Ocean   Weight  
  • Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

    "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.
  • Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.

    Men   Doors   Judging  
    "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 2), 1995.
  • Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out.

  • Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

    Beach   Atheist   Today  
    "The atheist delusion" by John Gray, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.
  • You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

  • The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

    William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”
  • A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

    Risk   Minorities   Alive  
    Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.202, Holt Paperbacks
  • When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.

    Home   Space   Needs  
    Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

    Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.
  • No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.

    Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism
  • To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out "Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "My hand is stretched out still" (Isaiah 5:25: 9:17,21). "...His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears".

  • I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

  • Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

    Angel   Rainbow   Watches  
    FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Feb 24, 2010
  • Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

    Peace   Children   Men  
    John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
  • Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

    Years   Long   Mind  
  • People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

    Beach   People   Bird  
    "The Skinny On My New Life" by Carrie Fisher, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 29, 2011.
  • The Saint Bernards work best in teams of at least three dogs. They are sent out on patrols following storms, and they wander the paths looking for stranded travelers. If they come upon a victim, two dogs lie down beside the person to keep him warm; one of the two licks his face to stimulate him back to consciousness. Meanwhile, another dog will have already started back to the hospice to sound the alarm.

    Dog   Lying   Team  
  • Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.

  • The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

  • We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

    Deny   Stranded  
    Song: Visions of Johanna
  • We need a ride. We're stranded." "We still have two legs, leftie and rightie. Mine are in the mood for exercise. They feel like a nice long walk--ARE YOU CRAZY?" she shrieked. I was standing with the tip of the beach umbrella aimed at the driver's-side window. "What?" I said. "We have to get in.

    Beach   Crazy   Nice  
    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.459, Simon and Schuster
  • For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?

    Running   Book   Reading  
  • I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

    Ocean   Sharks   Broken  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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