Be Around Quotes

#1. Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

Mark Skousen

#2. Now leave. (Adron)
Why would I want to do that? I mean, heaven forbid I should be around someone who actually likes me. It's so much more fun to be here with you insulting my manhood and questioning my parentage every five seconds. (Tiernan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be around that many people that were at the same point in their lives, who played guitar or whatever instrument - it was just perfect. It was a great environment.

John Petrucci

#4. There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

John Piper

#5. You are not going to be what you decide to be; you are going to be
what you decide to be around.

Jack Hyles

#6. It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.

Muhammad Ali

#7. Make it a point to be around those with positive energy - people who want what's best for you, people who understand your goals and priorities.

Rebecca Lobo

#8. Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.

Gina McCarthy

#9. Morning tide makes a great companion when you don't want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything.

Anna Banks

#10. You belong to me now, and I'll be back to get yo after your twenty-first birthday, when the time is right. No one else can touch you until then and I'll always be around to make sure.

Michelle A. Valentine

#11. Nothing is more frightening than a monster that cares about his health, cause you know he'll be around for a while.

Geoff Ramsey

#12. How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

Emily Perkins

#13. I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time - no question - and Uncle Tupleo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that's going to be around a long time.

Roger McGuinn

#14. I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.

Amy Poehler

#15. One of the nice things about being me is you show up in a town, you meet somebody interesting and entertaining, and for 48 hours, what a wonderful person to be around. You mess around, and all of that is super, super fun, and you don't have to deal with the long-term consequences of it.

Guy Branum

#16. Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#17. and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.

Rod McKuen

#18. To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Abraham Verghese

#19. My wife calls me grumpy cat. I'm normally a very pleasant person to be around.

Jonathan Tucker

#20. Shit pours out of my mouth before I can stop it, and I need to be around people that can hack the fucking awesomeness that is me.

Samantha Young

#21. When excitement and passion are evident, people want to be around you - including prospects. Prospects will want to do business with you because your joy is contagious.

Michelle Moore

#22. I can't be around you right now. It hurts too much, because I am so completely and desperately in love you, Tweet.

Alison G. Bailey

#23. We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

Linda Blair

#24. I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

Evangeline Lilly

#25. I would do anything to be around music.
You don't even have to pay me.

Eddie Vedder

#26. Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy's life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Angelina Jolie

#27. PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.

Markus Persson

#28. 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

S.E. Hinton

#29. I ain't looking to comply," John said, "I violate people's rights every day, reckon I'm an expert what mine are. I'll be around."

--John Bassler on being asked to leave town in the upcoming book Chokoloskee.

Charles Sams

#30. She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#31. That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

John Green

#32. The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

Brian McKnight

#33. My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it had a lot of gay literature and art books and he wanted me to be taken care of by the young gays and lesbians who worked for him.

Margaret Cho

#34. I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.

Cobie Smulders

#35. To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.

David Canary

#36. I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

Salar Kamangar

#37. Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.

John C. Reilly

#38. Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.

Jack Davenport

#39. I don't beef with people, because I don't be around people. Nobody can't say nothing about me, because ain't nobody know nothing about me.

Fetty Wap

#40. You know those days when you think you have to have a plate of pasta right now? When I'm trying to be good, I take a minute to ask myself, 'Do you really need to eat all this crazy stuff? It will still be around if you want it later.'

Ciara

#41. At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.

Sibel Edmonds

#42. I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.

Jacqueline Woodson

#43. My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us.

Mario Lemieux

#44. Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

Treat Williams

#45. I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

Robert Wyatt

#46. All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

Anthony Kiedis

#47. Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

Orlando Bloom

#48. Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.

Domhnall Gleeson

#49. I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.'

Timothy Olyphant

#50. It's so easy to be around people when everything is ... well ... easy. But the people who've been with you through thick and thin, who've seen you at your absolute worst, and who still want to hang out with you at the end of the day?
If that isn't family, I don't know what is.

Jacqueline E. Smith

#51. When I walked into the room to meet Michael Landon, it was clear he was a big-time star. To be around him was as far from Charles Ingalls as you could get. The hair was the same - no one touched his hair.

Dean Butler

#52. I want to be around people whose goals in life are more than early retirement and a new double-wide.

Max Mitchell

#53. The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are ... well, just reverse it!

Germany Kent

#54. That always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast based on the color instead of the taste.

John Green

#55. I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and have some fun.

Patrick Kane

#56. Then the pints will get further apart, and then one of us will get into a relationship and won't be around as much; the texts will start with Hey, too long no see, and all of a sudden we'll realize it's been a year since we met up. And

Tana French

#57. I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.

Adam Young

#58. People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

Ellen DeGeneres

#59. Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

Ben Harper

#60. When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.

Don Meyer

#61. It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

Roger Bannister

#62. So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?

Melina Marchetta

#63. In my twenties in San Francisco I became a sophisticate and an acting agnostic. It wasn't that I had stopped believing in God; it's just that God didn't seem to be around the neighborhoods I frequented.

Maya Angelou

#64. The key is grow your talent, attract talent, and then you'll attract the institutions that want to be around talent - and that, to me, is what we need to do at the national level.

Tim Kaine

#65. I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

Susan George

#66. I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

Alexandra Daddario

#67. I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.

Fiona Apple

#68. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

Amy Poehler

#69. A self-assured woman who is in control of her life draws like a magnet. She is so filled with positive energy that people want to be around her.

Susan Jeffers

#70. I don't want you to think I don't love my extended family. I do. I just don't want to be around them. Some of this is because I'm a loner. Some of this is because at family gatherings you are forced to face the short genetic distance between you and a clinically insane person.

Jim Gaffigan

#71. When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#72. More than fans, they felt like a team of morale-boosters who would always be around to remind me of my own worth

David Archuleta

#73. Turns out brain injuries are hard to live with." He paused. "Or even just be around. People don't like when they're lives are upended by something they can't see." Caden

Tijan

#74. Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

John Ortberg

#75. Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

Wayne Dyer

#76. People without sense of humor aren't much fun to be around, no matter how far they've gotten.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#77. People like to be around those who give off positive energy.

Erin Heatherton

#78. Brittany Murphy ... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

Jackie Collins

#79. Some people suffer quietly, while others suffer loudly. Who do you prefer to be around? Which are you?

Tom Cunningham

#80. Life has typhoons. They come and turn everything upside down. But you still have to standup because the next storm may be around the corner.

Nadia Hashimi

#81. Whenever I'm around him, all I can think about is how much more I want to be around him.

Colleen Hoover

#82. I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

Anita Roddick

#83. It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before.

Julian Schnabel

#84. It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

Tucker Carlson

#85. Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.

Todd English

#86. Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. It can also make them fun to be around.

Bear Grylls

#87. I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.

Lady Gaga

#88. I love Rihanna, Rihanna seems like a fun person to be friends with, she seems like a fun time to be [around].

Alana Haim

#89. I can't tell you how much I appreciate these young [Israeli] designers. There's too much strife in the world. If we become united in our creativity, not only in what we wear, but what we do, we will change the world. It's truly an honor to be around such inspiration.

Donna Karan

#90. He will not be around anyway and Ahana will find someone else to explore the city with. And who knows? She might be in Paris the next year or in Brussels and will find someone better.

Durjoy Datta

#91. I'm sure that it's not good not to be around people.

Marnie Stern

#92. I've always feared she would find completion without me, and I'd be around, stupid and unperfected, forever.

Ann Brashares

#93. I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.

Yasmin Paige

#94. I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want to be an old man and I want to go through all the ups and downs and I wanna still love what I do.

Michael Buble

#95. As an actress and just as a person, I've kind of been in a little bit of a bubble. So it was so great for me to see where I could go as an actress and to be around incredible people who are much more experienced than I am, like Harmony [Korine], James [Franco], and Vanessa [Hudgens].

Selena Gomez

#96. Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

Bobby Allison

#97. Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever.

Helena Christensen

#98. If you couldn't be yourself around somebody then, you didn't need to be around that person.

Jan'a Sullivan

#99. Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields and a bowling alley.

Terry Pratchett

#100. Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

Brandy Norwood