In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you. — Kasey Anderson Copy Share Image
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality. — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings. — Martin Bashir Copy Share Image
Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal… — Juliette de Bairacli Levy Copy Share Image
When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego… — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
When your life feels like you are on a sailboat,with no wind to fill your sails,there are still choices.You can drop anchor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
As a 16-year-old boy, to leave your parents, leave your surroundings, it makes you grow a bit faster. — Serge Gnabry Copy Share Image
I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience. — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh. — Ian McDiarmid Copy Share Image
To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The creativity is just something that, I don't know, you work very hard at, but part of you says that you were… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal… — John Francis Copy Share Image
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
