Top 100 Not Around Quotes
#1. Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.
Roger Penske
#2. Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.
Keith Urban
#3. My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around ...
Jimmy Buffett
#4. She chokes on her drink with her laugh. "Chunk? You call your little sister Chunk?" "We all call her Chunk. She was a fat baby." She laughs. "You have nicknames for everyone," she says. "You call Sky Cheese Tits. You call Holder Hopeless. What do you call me when I'm not around?
Colleen Hoover
#5. Create stories that will leave an everlasting impression even when you are not around to tell it
Marie Guillaume
#6. Henry studied Merri Lee, then Meg. "Humans don't like mice?" "Not in the building!" Meg said. "And not around food," Merri Lee added. The three terra indigene looked baffled. "But it's fresh meat," the brown-haired woman finally said.
Anne Bishop
#8. Those strange creepy people, all picking at their little ... scabs," she had complained to me when Nathan was not around. "I hate this type of - and here I thought she used a lovely gem of a phrase - "unearned unhappiness!
William Styron
#9. If I'm not around
I hope you'll remember me
and together we will hold on to our favorite song.
Sanober Khan
#10. The answers are in you, not around you.
Dan Groat
#11. As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.
Patrick Lencioni
#12. For the first time in my whole damn life I can look into a girls eyes and find her looking right back at me. Not passed me. Not around me. Into me.
Marilyn Grey
#13. If you're not a wreck in this business, you're not around.
Joan Rivers
#14. So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about it. Because, you know, I'm not around girls like that. The friends I have in the business, I'm always really happy for them. I think we're always happy for each other. That sounds crap, but it's true.
Emily Blunt
#16. I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house.
Pauley Perrette
#17. Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around ...
Taylor Swift
#18. I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.
Megan McCafferty
#19. Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.
Walter Isaacson
#20. It's true that no one is indispensable, but things aren't just right when some people are not around.
Ufuoma Apoki
#21. I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.
Kiera Cass
#22. I sighed and deleted the message, imagining the dirty clothes multiplying like rabbits, because that's what they do when I'm not around.
Alex Owens
#23. I respect a woman who can respect me when I'm not around.
Mark W. Boyer
#24. If you think I'm happy when you're not around, it's because I'm thinking of you.
Jamie McGuire
#25. People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.
David W. Earle
#26. I grew up with six brothers, and I'm from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was more like sports and comic books, so getting to work for Marvel is like my version of being able to be a princess.
Chloe Bennet
#28. Because of her hospital schedule, she was either not around at all, or sleeping, or around a lot.
Carol Anshaw
#29. People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.
Billy Connolly
#30. Always remember, darling girl, men love the pussy and their dicks are always fiending for attention. If you're not around to give it to them, they'll get it somewhere else and the novelty of new lips and a new cunt might shock them so much they'll think they're in love.
Katie Ayres
#31. Everyone has someone to call on when they're down, let me be that someone when that ones not around.
Mark W. Boyer
#32. The main thing to tell a person when you explain how to become righteous is to announce to him for free grace of God, concealing nothing, saying none other than what God says in the Gospel. Build a fence around Mount Sinai, but not around Golgotha ,because at Golgotha all God's wrath was appeased.
C.F.W. Walther
#33. I don't like remembering the way that hurt her. Hurts her. I'm sure it still does; I'm just not around to see, and I don't like dwelling on that, either. That's only normal. Missing people you still love, and not wanting to see them in pain and angry and humiliated.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#34. As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.
Danny Huston
#35. Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear.
Jodi Picoult
#36. I realize more and more I miss my 'Survivor' friends when I'm not around them.
Jenna Morasca
#37. But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.
Dennis Brown
#38. ..I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around.
Melina Marchetta
#39. Everything turns slower when she's not around, but when she's with me, an hour feels like a blink of an eye.
Rea Lidde
#40. In order to get past something terrible, sometimes you have to walk through the pain, not around it. It might be messy. It might make you sob. But if you let yourself cry long enough, you finally reach the bottom of your tears. I haven't reached the bottom yet, but I know that someday I will.
Michelle Knight
#41. What happens with 'Mad Men,' it's like an Elvis Costello album; I'll watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wife's not around because if she catches me yelling at 'Mad Men,' then it gets weird.
Michael Weatherly
#42. You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.
Lizzo
#44. I see you Norah. I have always been able to see inside you. I feel you when you're not around. You act like we don't have this deep, once in a lifetime connection, but you are fooling yourself.
Angela Richardson
#45. I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers.
Allen Iverson
#46. Alonso paid one of the guards to keep him informed on what goes on in the house when he's not around. Alonso was in the guest house entertaining a few young girls all under the age of seventeen. He had been drugging and fucking them all
Nako
#47. History happens," said the Doctor. "Even when I'm not around."
"Only by accident," said Kadiatu...
Ben Aaronovitch
#48. Ya know, you're not supposed to fall in love with anyone when I'm not around to threaten them. - Jase
H.R. Willaston
#49. Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them ... I just feel better when they're not around.
Charles Bukowski
#50. You're the light in my life and when you're not around, my world is dark. I will never do anything to jeopardize our relationship again. I make this promise to you, Ellery Black, that from this day forward, I will never keep anything from you. You have my word, baby. I promise forever.
Sandi Lynn
#51. Elizabeth Hamilton! What are you doing riding that horse? Nick's going to be so angry with you!" "Nick's not around," Elizabeth said tartly. "Well, you'd better not break your neck. We've enough problems as it is." "I won't.
Debra Holland
#52. I am not your average girl. That isn't me. I want you to notice when I'm not around. I want you to remember the little things. I want you to see me for who I am. I don't want to be like everybody else. I follow my heart and never look back. I'll go on shining no matter what ... Always shine.
Anonymous
#53. Poems Should Speak [10w]
Poems should speak to you, for you,
not around you.
Beryl Dov
#54. Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.
Dinesh D'Souza
#55. I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if it's about me. I just don't need to hear extra garbage.
Laura Vandervoort
#56. I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.
Christopher Walken
#57. My mom is my heart. She was a rock for me even though she was not around as much as dad.
Sunidhi Chauhan
#58. When we spend time together, I feel this peace that I don't get when you're not around. It's kind of like when you're a kid, and you put on fresh PJs after a bath and get into a made bed with clean sheets straight out of the dryer. That's what being with you feels like.
Jamie McGuire
#59. When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#60. It's easy to motivate a client when they are sitting on a bench right in front of you, but the real challenge for a trainer is to have that motivation exist even when you are not around.
Jessie Pavelka
#61. Whenever you're feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile
Shahrukh Khan
#62. The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
Penn Jillette
#64. 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
Viggo Mortensen
#65. You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out.
Mark Pellegrino
#66. My marriage has worked because I am not around much.
Michael Palin
#67. When I'm not around you that is when I feel breathless. I liken it to being a fish, and you are my water. When I'm not around you, I feel as though I cannot breathe. And you have to understand the irony in that because I've never in my entire existence ever needed to.
S.L. Naeole
#68. Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you ... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.
Eugene Delacroix
#69. Kids are like heroin
an injection of pain when they're around, but even when they're not around it's like that next fix. You just can't stop thinking about it.
Faye Kellerman
#70. I enjoy spending time with my family. And when my family's not around, when I'm on the road, a lot of sleep. I get my rest. I understand how important my job is and how important rest is to that job. I'm pretty boring.
Mark Teixeira
#71. All I want is to be by your side. When you are not around, I feel time passes too slowly. But when I have you with me, time seems like flying.
Auliq Ice
#72. I miss you when you're not around,' he said. 'I can't sleep when you're not next to me, and I worry a lot about what you're up to.
Victoria Laurie
#73. If you aren't where you want to be or you haven't achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.
Nick Vujicic
#74. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.
Pearl Zhu
#75. We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.
Kenneth R. Miller
#76. It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.
Nicki Minaj
#77. He's my breath of fresh air, and I feel like I can't breathe anymore when he's not around.
J.M. Darhower
#78. In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment
Chris Brogan
#79. Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
Michael Palin
#80. My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.
Leigh Newman
#81. You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.
Chuck Palahniuk
#82. My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.
Wade Guyton
#83. I love playing real characters ... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research involved and I love that part of the process.
Andy Serkis
#84. Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#85. The redemptive way goes through pain, not around it.
Philip Yancey
#86. I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children.
Maureen Johnson
#87. I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days.
Sarra Manning
#88. We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.
Clive Thompson
#89. I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice when I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
Radiohead
#90. Once you've gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it's a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it's not around. Or maybe it's just me.
David Burr Gerrard
#91. I don't think I'll ever want you to leave. You're the part of me that's been missing. I'm off when you're not around.
Kindle Alexander
#92. I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#93. I miss your cock when it's not around. And the rest of you isn't half bad, either
Jessica Scott
#94. The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
Cherrie Moraga
#95. I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.
Cynthia Hand
#96. For me, I like to show what guys are like when no one is looking and how we really are, and that we can be emotional and have these emotional lives. I think it would be great to do a film where we see some females and what's going on there when we're not around.
David Ayer
#97. When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you.
Sadhguru
#98. Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
Alice Hoffman
#99. Your greatest friend is within you, not beside you; your greatest enemy is within you, not around you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.
Leighton Ford
