Quotes About Being Surrounded

#1. I was a little bit of a slob who was sort of surrounded by dirty laundry. I can trace the exact moment that I became a tidy human being, and that moment was the day my son Sam was born.

Tim Daly

#2. I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.

Manny Montana

#3. Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.

Isaac Stern

#4. I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Louis Garrel

#5. There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.

Bonnie McKee

#6. When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.

Carolyn Murphy

#7. I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.

Douglas Coupland

#8. everything being fine is only one of many, many reasons why someone may not contact you. Perhaps they are tied up. Maybe they are surrounded by fierce weasels, or perhaps they are wedged tightly between two refrigerators and cannot get themselves out.

Lemony Snicket

#9. I don't regret anything I was before because I still am.
I only regret not having loved you.
Put your hands in mine
And let's be quiet, surrounded by life.

Alberto Caeiro

#10. Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#11. Billionaires rather not have friends than being surrounded by idiots.

Robin Sacredfire

#12. As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.

Tina Yothers

#14. My God, he thought, the man I once was!
The life that surrounded me! The force that was mine! No "otherness" to be felt anywhere! Once upon a time I was a full human being.

Philip Roth

#15. We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. There's evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didn't take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took.

Robin Williams

#16. Alexia found herself surrounded and embraced by a room of such unmitigated welcome and personality that it was akin to being yelled at by plum pudding.

Gail Carriger

#17. I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many people. It's not like I freak out or anything, it's just that I'm far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.

Ryan Kwanten

#18. I loved being surrounded by queer people. It was like being in a safe bubble that could only be burst by our own drama and neurosis. Which we all did without any effort.

Santino Hassell

#19. Imagine that every man's mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but the individuality would have gone

Arthur C. Clarke

#20. I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#21. I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

James Balog

#22. Despite my tendency to keep eighty percent of myself to myself, I liked being surrounded by people.

Samantha Young

#23. I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

Junot Diaz

#24. Being surrounded by toadies does not mean you are respected; it means you are the head toad.

Jo Goodman

#25. It is better to develop ideas with friends rather than the usual route of having a great idea and throwing it out into a production, and being surrounded by professionals who've been doing their jobs for years.

David Gordon Green

#26. Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.

Maurice Druon

#27. Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Stewart Stern

#28. I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

Sarah Silverman

#29. Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

Grace Slick

#30. Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy.

Alison Eastwood

#31. I don't mind being alone when I'm surrounded by people, I just hate being alone when I'm alone.

Dana Gould

#32. Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's just as banal as trying to show my version of the beauty in the world. It's about beauty at the end of the day.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#33. People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.

Kim Culbertson

#34. Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

Pete Wentz

#35. I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.

Saffron Mello Castro

#36. I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

Janet Echelman

#37. I've learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I'm alone and I've never been so content.

Melinda Salisbury

#38. Loneliness doesn't come from being alone, but from being surrounded by people who can't understand you. A deep feeling of isolation comes when you realize that even the person standing right next to you is unreachable.

Anonymous

#39. If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.

Matt Haig

#40. Being alone in the dark - surrounded by silence, frightful. Thoughts breathe a life of their own; twisting and turning on each other as enemies unto themselves.

Veronica Purcell

#41. The biggest challenge [for movie Agnus dei] - working in a foreign country with a predominantly Polish cast and crew - also proved to be the biggest blessing. Being surrounded by all this change , [both] culturally [and] linguistically, was a new and refreshing inspiration.

Anne Fontaine

#42. Truthfully we were alone only in the ways Westerners speak of being alone in Africa, as if the few hundred locals by whom they are almost always surrounded are part of the landscape, instead of part of humanity.

Alexandra Fuller

#43. The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

Paul C. Nagel

#44. Regalverborgenheiten" word found in Gabriele Wohmann's short story "Die Feindin" meaning the comforting seclusion of being surrounded by book cases.

Gabriele Wohmann

#45. I'm sure that there are plenty of intelligent people who don't read a lot, but I can't imagine how they stand life without being surrounded by the comfort and knowledge in books.

Hollis Shiloh

#46. It's a little bit devastating being surrounded by people who can do what you can't anymore. People who create. People whose souls don't live in their bodies anymore because they've leached so much of themselves into their work.

Katja Millay

#47. It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.

Jessica Raine

#48. I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

Andrew Motion

#49. There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last boat to the island.

Joanne Harris

#50. In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.

Cynthia Heimel

#51. The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce.

Wayne Dyer

#52. I don't go home and pretend I'm August rather than just the actual lines I'm saying in the film. If you do it that way, it makes it more natural and second nature. After awhile you get used to it and there's so much, especially being in New York to film; you're always surrounded by American people.

Freddie Highmore

#53. I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

Kaitlin Olson

#54. Happiness being surrounded by good friends and family at a BBQ.

Richie Norton

#55. I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

Erin Morgenstern

#56. I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

Brigitte Bardot

#57. You are surrounded by endless possibilities. Your potential being the sum of your beliefs.

Steven Redhead

#58. There is a difference between being mad and being surrounded by retards.

Blanco

#59. I can't imagine anything more life-giving, more comforting, or more fun than being curled up and
surrounded by a group of women who know you deeply, and love you relentlessly.

Stephanie May Wilson

#60. If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

David Elkind

#61. As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different times a year.

Domhnall Gleeson

#62. We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real randomness to all of it.

Cynthia Daignault

#63. Lucille, please make them go away!" she moaned, her voice muffled.
"Do you think I am a divine being sent from the celestial realm to guard you from the harsh punishment of rousing from your slumber?"
"Is that a yes?"
"I am surrounded by idiots.

Erica Sehyun Song

#64. After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

Maria Semple

#65. Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

Thomas Jefferson

#66. I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental.

Asif Kapadia

#67. I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

Harold E. Varmus

#68. We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.

Colin Trevorrow

#69. Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.

Rachel Boston

#70. My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.

Lauryn Hill

#71. It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.

Isaac Marion

#72. There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.

Shannon L. Alder

#73. Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#74. For even if we have the sensation of being always surrounded by our own soul, it is not as though by a motionless prison: rather, we are in some sense borne along with it in a perpetual leap to go beyond it.

Marcel Proust

#75. Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

Carl Hagelin

#76. I like being surrounded by great people.

Paul Walker

#77. The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical team, and watching it down below, while feeling comfortable. They experience the feeling of being in a spiritual body that appears to be a sort of living energy field.

Raymond Moody

#78. But I think sometimes happiness just meant living. Being present. Being alive. Being surrounded by those you loved.

Paige Weaver

#79. Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

Thomas Bulfinch

#80. I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

Will Oldham

#81. When you're being chased by zombies, hills are either your best friends or your burial ground. The slope slows them down, which is great, unless you hit the peak and find out that you're surrounded, with nowhere left to run to.

Mira Grant

#82. Trees surrounded them from all sides, casting long inky shadows that would, at another time, have been scary. But there was no point in being scared of what might be lurking in the shadows when the biggest bad, of all big bads, was gazing at her intently.

Caroline Hanson

#83. I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.

Emilia Fox

#84. What a puzzle you are to me, Jander Sunstar! You feed upon lifeblood, yet mourn the life you take. You are a being of shadow and night, yet you yearn to be surrounded by beauty. You are dead, but you cannot bear decay. What exactly are you? You can hardly be a vampire!

Christie Golden

#85. I'm surrounded by freaks. Am I weirder than the rest of them? Ultimately I've learned to pride myself on being quirky.

Karen Elson

#86. I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.

Thurston Moore

#87. His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#88. Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration ...

Wayne D. Dosick

#89. Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left - sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.

G.K. Chesterton

#90. Relaxing, intelligent feeling of being surrounded by generation after generation of thought.

Charlaine Harris

#91. My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.

Corey Feldman

#92. There was that same sense of being surrounded by the sleeping inhabitants of a waking world he had no interest in visiting or knowing, of dull business temporarily suspended, of futility and repetition soon to wake again.

William Gibson

#93. I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

Alison Sweeney

#94. found out later that he lived alone, surrounded by books, both his own and other people's, and that as well as being a hired hunter of books he was an expert on Napoleon's battles. He could set out on a board, from memory, the exact positions of troops on the eve of Waterloo. A

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#95. I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#96. I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.

Dan Rosensweig

#97. What's it like being a writer? Mostly it's like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal patients, teach children. Meanwhile, I'm over here saying "Let's pretend.

Jennifer Froelich

#98. Was there anything more inspiring than being able to look up and see oneself surrounded by thousands of books all the way to the ceiling three stories above?

Elizabeth Camden

#99. Sometimes it feels weird being an actor surrounded by all these real fighters and you gotta keep your confidence high and do your best to learn it as quickly as possible.

Sean Faris

#100. Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

Christie Hefner