Top 100 Being Around Quotes
#2. Maybe home isn't a place. Maybe it's a feeling you have inside of you, being around the people who matter to you
Justin Somper
#3. I am a super social person. I'm an only child, so I thrive on social settings and being around my friends because I make them my siblings. When I'm not acting or singing or working on anything, I am making new relationships with people because, to me, my friendships are very important.
Hayley Orrantia
#4. Being around him felt like being around someone who saw your scars and called them beautiful when you only saw your past mistakes.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#5. I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.
Martin Scorsese
#6. I love being around kids. I couldn't figure out why all these 70-year-olds wanted to hang out with me when I was 27. Now I understand, and I'm trying to steal their energy from them like they stole from me at the time.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#7. Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
Alice Greczyn
#8. I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.
David Beckham
#9. Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
Samantha Bee
#10. I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I never had the opportunity to associate with anybody my own age due to my
career. I miss being around kids my own age.
Selena
#11. I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts - we constantly poke fun at each other, but it's all done out of love.
Jourdan Dunn
#12. It's nice being around someone without always having to think about who you're supposed to be and what you're supposed to do and think and say. It's nice to just concentrate on being the person you are - whoever you are.
Brenna Yovanoff
#13. I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
Laura Prepon
#14. In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.
Rob Lowe
#15. Being around you was the sweetest torture. I wanted to touch you, hold you, kiss you. I wanted all of you." His shoulders slumped. "But I was afraid of what would happen if I gave in my desire. If I let myself love you.
Danielle L. Jensen
#16. I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
Sam Yagan
#17. People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.
Greg Gutfeld
#18. My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
Win Butler
#19. As the physicist John Wheeler said, If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.
Ken Robinson
#20. I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
Patti Smith
#21. I studied music all the way through college, but as soon as I graduated from university, I got straight into London and got straight into film music. So really my experiences have been being around the orchestras in London and being around the people who work in film music.
Steven Price
#22. I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.
Brian Molko
#23. I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.
James Vincent McMorrow
#24. Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.
Frederick Lenz
#25. In the world of power, people will come looking for you. If you're a movie star, you know what I am saying. People will come around you, little groupie types. They think that being around you they can get something.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.
Molly Ringle
#27. I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
#28. When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.
Naturi Naughton
#29. There's nobody who loves being around actors working more than David Mamet, especially actors bringing his tremendous dialogue to life. I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave.
Clark Gregg
#30. Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have rejoined and gone off again and rejoined, but I've been there the whole time, and even though Alan White is the 'new' drummer, he has been there since 1972, so he also deserves the credit for being around for 20 years.
Chris Squire
#31. I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.
Jesse McCartney
#32. The team we had, the Hobie Vita-Pakt Super Surfer team, you know, the Hilton boys were on there, Conrad Hilton's grandkids, and they were really good. After being around those kids, I could ride a little. Do a 360, some kick-turns, stuff like that.
Hobart Alter
#34. Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.
Shooter Jennings
#35. I love talking football, and I love being around it.
Tim Tebow
#36. Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.
Wayne Coyne
#37. She couldn't have him, and there was no mistaking it. She could never be his wife. She could not steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again- belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person. No matter how she loved him.
Kristin Cashore
#38. If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.
Ryan Gosling
#39. Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly your teacher. These are methods that have been handed down for thousands of years.
Frederick Lenz
#40. I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.
Jesse Bradford
#41. The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
Lev Grossman
#42. Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
Ken Kesey
#43. I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.
Anthony Kiedis
#44. I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.
Cecily Strong
#45. I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.
Raekwon
#46. It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.
Big Sean
#47. The fact is that most people naturally like being around people who like their company.
Amina Athman
#48. Yet he liked her face. He liked her voice. He liked being around her.
Robert Galbraith
#49. Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?
Steve Goodier
#50. I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.
Pete Seeger
#51. He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it. You were on your own. You had to be very independent being around John [Coltrane].
Pharoah Sanders
#52. And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.
Ashley Judd
#53. Extroverts get their energy from being around a lot of people, but introverts find large groups draining and require time alone to recharge
Sophia Amoruso
#54. I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.
James Rebhorn
#55. Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.
Horst Faas
#56. When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
Paris Hilton
#57. He couldn't stand being around her when she had...Theron.
He wasn't king anymore. He wasn't an orphan anymore. He wasn't in Meira's life anymore.
None of this was the freedom he thought he'd wanted.
Sara Raasch
#58. Being around Nikolai was always like this, watching him shift and change, revealing secrets as he went. He reminded me of the wooden nesting dolls I'd played with as a child. Except instead of getting smaller, he just kept getting grander and more mysterious.
Leigh Bardugo
#59. I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.
Emilia Fox
#60. I have not looked at Carlos since the meeting ... Being around him is like walking around with the flu ... The need to lie down in a darkened room and let my hatred of him run through me is almost insurmountable.
Kathleen Maher
#61. There's the kind of love where being around someone makes you feel energized. Just being around them gives you more energy than less.
Mason Jennings
#62. I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.
Gillian Jacobs
#63. I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music videos, it does make you more aware of how you look. With music videos they send you rough cuts, and in certain frames of me, I just see a nose advert.
Michael Bolton
#64. I love being around people who love to do what I love to do, which is comedy.
Tracy Morgan
#65. But I couldn't ... I couldn't stop being around you, and loving you, and wanting you. I still can't stay away.
Sarah J. Maas
#66. This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.
Jacoby Shaddix
#68. I love being around cool, fun guys, so I've always enjoyed talking to gay men. Maybe it's because I'm an inherent flirt, but it just feels very natural.
David Walton
#69. I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.
Bill Gates
#70. I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?
Kenneth Logan
#71. I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.
Jessica Chastain
#72. All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.
Paul Oakenfold
#73. Being around people is exhausting. Being around Beau is like a really good version of being alone, as easy but more fun.
Emily Henry
#74. Being around blind people is always a little frustrating to me because I know they have no idea how handsome I am.
Zach Braff
#75. I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.
Johnathon Schaech
#76. I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
Nathaniel Buzolic
#77. I am not a huge fan of being around people all the time. I really like being able to leave people.
Guy Branum
#78. A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
Cate Blanchett
#79. I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
#80. ...being around him wasn't good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum - it was like trying to talk to his parents. He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he'd come.
Lev Grossman
#81. Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
#82. Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.
Nicky Whelan
#83. I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.
Curtis Jackson
#84. In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!
Hillary Scott
#85. I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily.
Aesop Rock
#86. When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.
Halle Berry
#87. Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.
David Walliams
#88. She'd explained that I was an extrovert, and extroverts got their energy from being around other people. She was an introvert, and introverts got their energy from being by themselves. She needed to go home, be by herself,
Jennifer Echols
#89. I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys coming back, spring training, being around them, you get a chance to get to know them. So I always think you learn a lot by listening.
Derek Jeter
#90. I've always liked books," she said softly. "I love being around them. I love getting loaf in a story, a world. I love that I can become anyone, that I can become anyone, that I can live any fantasy.
Bella Andre
#91. As a studio, you have to have a niche. You have to provide a service and there has to be a reason for your being around.
John Vanderslice
#92. Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.
Germany Kent
#93. I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.
Marisa Tomei
#94. Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.
Stefan Molyneux
#95. There was something about Nick that was like being around a wild animal. He was smiling and friendly now, but it felt like at any minute he could turn snarling and scary again.
Rachel Hawkins
#96. Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.
Francis Chan
#97. My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
Penn Jillette
#98. And that's my problem. You can't rely on anybody being around for you, because things change. Specifically, people die, or something comes up in their life, which you find out is actually quite separate to you.
Kirsty Eagar
#99. People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.
Salman Rushdie
#100. I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.
Sara Bareilles
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