Top 100 All Around Me Quotes
#1. I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
Imtiaz Ali
#2. If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. Balaram
#3. I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all!
Arlene Dickinson
#4. When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.
Barry Zito
#5. Do you feel the magic?" "Aye," he breathed into her salt-dusted hair. "It's all around me, but most especially, here in my arms.
Susan Wiggs
#6. Waking up from a deep, healing sleep reminds me of rushing toward the surface of a lake, brightness beckoning from above and bubbles fizzing all around me. Consciousness
Amanda Bouchet
#7. The sun now radiated all around me and the magnificent palace that lay before me glittered invitingly. Which reminded me of another one of Mother's sayings: if something appears too good to be true, it probably is.
Jessie Harrell
#8. All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
Maria Monk
#9. This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.
Lukas Haas
#10. I walked into my dream and kept walking with my Leningrad in front of me and behind me and all around me. I wasn't carrying Russia with me. It was carrying me.
Paullina Simons
#11. I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.
Erin Morgenstern
#12. But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.
John Ratzenberger
#13. I am made of beauty. I notice beauty all around me every day. I am beautifully blessed!
Amy Leigh Mercree
#14. I was desensitized to all the pain, even though essentially it was always all around me.
Julie Wenzel
#15. I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me
Iggy Pop
#16. For a while I just sat there reveling in the pure pleasure of his touch. The scent of him was still in the air. I didn't want to breathe and risk dispelling the traces of him all around me.
Belinda Jones
#17. I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
#18. I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.
All the little duckies, with their heads in the water
Heads in the water.
It was my punishment. Honor lost. Everything lost.
Shame is a hunter.
My shame was all around me now.
Ruta Sepetys
#19. I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.
Gary Zukav
#20. Maybe my knowledge is from books, films and all around me.
Deyth Banger
#21. I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water's surface above me. Everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemists's dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me.
Nick Bantock
#22. I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around me.
The Who
#23. All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other matters,
You can be me when I'm gone
Flowers gathered in the morning,
Afternoon they blossom on,
Still are withered in the evening,
You can be me when I'm gone.
Neil Gaiman
#24. On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Teenage girls with burst ovarian cysts nodded out on morphine. It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#25. It's at that exact second I realize - in a rush, like a wave crashing all around me - I have fallen in love. I am head over heels in love with Chase Gartner.
S.R. Grey
#26. I kicked back my heels, but all I achieved was to ride out of the panicked mass into the path of the Danes, and all around me men were screaming and the Danish axes and swords were chopping and swinging. The grim work, the blood feast, the song of the blade, they call it.
Bernard Cornwell
#27. I do find that if I go out for a meal I can be listening to a few conversations at once all around me. It can drive my partner bonkers a little bit. But it's about being able to tell a lot of very different stories as well as you can and I do genuinely love what I do.
Christine Bottomley
#28. I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.
Jessica Lynch
#29. My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.
Franz Liszt
#30. Every day I am grateful for the abundance in my life and all around me Every day I attract more abundance and wealth by improving my skills and talents
Darren Cottingham
#31. What did you say, Gram? About there being no church out here?" "I said that the sky was the roof of my cathedral and the desert was its floor and any time I paid attention, I could feel a higher power all around me.
Terri Farley
#32. If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.
Mike Birbiglia
#33. I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. I saw the world and its lack of compassion, its harsh, grating judgement, and its cold, resentful eyes. I saw it all around me.
Tahereh Mafi
#35. And so I pray I am today as honest
with myself, with life all around me and below and above me,
with all who I encounter.
Jimmy Santiago Baca
#36. How am I supposed to take it easy when all around me these creatures are in a perpetual state of ignorance? ...
S.G. Browne
#37. All around me I hear the pleasant chortle of Dutch. It sounds vaguely familiar, though I can't imagine why. Then it dawns on me. Dutch sounds exactly like English spoken backward! ...
I wonder if I recorded someone speaking Dutch and played that backward, it would sound like regular English!
Eric Weiner
#38. The point is, all my life I've hung back, never going after what I really wanted, trying to be content with settling for less. Meanwhile, life went on all around me, but I was never really a part of it.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#39. Maybe grace was all around me, bubbling through, passing under my feet, and I'd never seen it because I'd never tried to see.
Lisa Wingate
#40. Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.
Eoin Colfer
#41. I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#42. With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
Peter Gabriel
#43. I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.
Roger Zelazny
#44. My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.
Terry Tempest Williams
#45. I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
J.D. Salinger
#46. Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
Jackie Collins
#47. All around me were the noise of the crazy gold-coast city. And this was my Hollywood career - this was my last night in Hollywood, and I was spreading mustard on my lap in back of a parking-lot john.
Jack Kerouac
#48. When I can no longer go forward, even by an inch, I lay my head on the ground and wait to die. I'm too tired to be frightened. Above me is blackness, and all around me is blackness, and the forest sounds are a symphony to sing me out of this world. I am already at my funeral.
Lauren Oliver
#49. I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.
Muhammad Yunus
#50. Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.
Tim Gunn
#51. I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
Jackie Collins
#52. Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.
Gregory Allen Howard
#53. I hold up the heartstone. It's burnin hot now. He's on th'other side. The sound of a heartbeat. In my head, all around me, everywhere. So loud.
Moira Young
#54. What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me
Dave Matthews
#55. When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#56. God is already present in my life and all around me; prayer offers the chance to attend and respond to that presence.
Philip Yancey
#57. Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.
Kirk Douglas
#58. The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.
William Wharton
#59. I've been longing for,
Daisies to push through the floor,
And I wish that plant life would grow all around me,
So I won't feel dead anymore.
Owl City
#60. I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#61. Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
Gordon Lightfoot
#62. This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?
Peter S. Beagle
#63. The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
George Washington
#64. Wait!" I called. Too loud. All around me, the trees seemed to be listening, injured at hearing such a loud voice when they had been used to whispers and silence.
Hollow Ryan
#65. My beacon is gone and I'm drowning now. The storm is all around me and I can't even save myself. I don't even know if I want to.
She's gone.
David Levithan
#66. Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.
Veronica Roth
#67. Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.
Rachel Zucker
#68. Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.
Simon Pegg
#69. When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#70. I open my eyes
To my own mistake
I see all around me
Hands getting raized
And Questions remain
Silent ...
Tom Folsom
#71. Asininity was puddling all around me in quantities too vast to soak up. - It Looked Different on the Model
Laurie Notaro
#72. As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
James Ellroy
#73. I get lost in the magical beauty that is all around me. My mind is an enchanted magician who mysteriously creates all of that magnificent beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#74. The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
John Sutter
#75. When I get out of the rickshaw I walk slowly towards the school building, taking small steps. All around me girls are running: in the morning the young are as noisy as a flock of sparrows.
Shan Sa
#76. Beauty's all around me right here. It's not in a textbook. It's not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight ... The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.
Tim Tharp
#77. I felt the pressure of people all around me, all the time. People around me, people with me, people pressing on me, pressing me to be one of them, one of the people.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#78. All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another.
Tegan Quin
#79. Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.
Sarah Dessen
#80. It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.
Sarah Dessen
#81. The world was ripping apart. And pieces of the wreckage were raining all around me.
Rick Yancey
#82. When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#83. The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting down coasters and alphabetising DVDs while all around me people got off with whoever was closest and gradually headed off to various rooms to make more mess, no doubt.
Jon Richardson
#84. I'm a really claustrophobic person to begin with. I hate elevators, especially crammed elevators. I get really scared. So I think that it's very definitely scary when girls are all around me and I can't go anywhere. At the same time, I guess I got to get used to it, you know what I mean?
Justin Bieber
#85. Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.
George Leigh Mallory
#86. I feel my strange, beautiful bird in my heart, and the unflooded world all around me.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#87. I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.
Susie Bright
#88. I have a tingly feeling that I get when there are books all around me. The library! I know it's geeky, but I love it. Just sitting between the shelves of books, reading - it's the safest feeling.
Nick Lake
#89. I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.
Donatella Versace
#90. Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed.
Sherry Jones
#91. If I trace its breaking point I come across the eternity of the primitive impulse. The sea river is a cold impasse. Will I find secrets there? In my dream I am standing on a frozen lake, the second sex and I can hear female voices all around me.
Abigail George
#92. In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'
Paul G. Quinnett
#93. While I have been writing I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me ...
Dodie Smith
#94. As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
Katharine Sergeant Angell White
#95. I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.
Madonna Ciccone
#96. And the way she smiles at me suspends the rest of the world all around me, makes me feel like I've borrowed another life.
Kelly Loy Gilbert
#97. So, what's it gonna be, boys? We've got a new bartender to audition.
Cheers go up all around me. Olivia's got a fan base already. She's gonna make me a killing.
M. Leighton
#98. All around me, grown-up voices called out, "Amen!" as if the word was a hall pass into Heaven.
Jane Yolen
#99. That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
Anais Nin
#100. I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
Cate Shortland
