Vicinity Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin… — Sven Birkerts
I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some… — Sam Lipsyte
Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using… — Steven Johnson
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. — Ambrose Bierce
If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than… — Daniel Taylor
Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go? — Ron Killings
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. — Richard Leakey
Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine… — Edgar Cayce
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes. — Bertolt Brecht
I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle. — Jim Carrey
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates -… — Timothy Garton Ash
Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others… — Ernest K. Gann
I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity,… — Oprah Winfrey
Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity,… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you… — Robert Wright
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes. — Antonio Carlos Jobim
And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot… — Terry Pratchett
Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American… — Saul Bellow
People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their… — Al Franken
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. — Washington Irving

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