Nearest Person Quotes

#1. When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

Brian Patten

#2. It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

Peter Steele

#3. If we divide up the world's land area evenly, there's enough room for each of us to have a little over 2 hectares each, with the nearest person 77 meters away.

Randall Munroe

#4. It is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.

Tommy Bolin

#6. A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he's concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.

Fernando Pessoa

#7. The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

Vincent De Paul

#8. Confuse your trail, lose your trail.

Vikas Swarup

#9. Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.

Tom Ford

#10. She stared at me, this wonderful smile rising to her lips, and I don't know that if ever seen someone so beautiful.

Robyn Schneider

#11. At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

George Carlin

#12. I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!

Sharon Swan

#13. I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut.

Susane Colasanti

#14. Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

Mother Teresa

#15. Teach me to listen, O God, to those nearest me, my family, my friends, my co-workers. Help me to be aware that no matter what words I hear, the message is, "Accept the person I am. Listen to me.

Philippa Alby

#16. Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

Lorne Michaels

#17. I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals ... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!

Luke Bryan

#18. I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

Brad Gilbert

#19. Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.

Joseph Conrad

#20. Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

Nicole Kidman

#21. the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.

Henning Mankell