Top 100 Surrounded Quotes
#2. I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis.
Jill Soloway
#3. As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.
Hilary Swank
#4. I'm a realist," I replied stubbornly, "not a romantic. Romantics
are always disappointed."
"Maybe they're disappointed because they're always surrounded
by realists." Simon countered.
Amanda Howells
#5. When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!
Kenneth Choi
#6. He could be happy, if surrounded by the right people, if allowed to be Will, instead of The Man in the Wheelchair, the list of symptoms, the object of pity. And
Jojo Moyes
#7. The faint of lemon verbena surrounded her, floating gently from Eleanor Butler's silk gown and silken hair. It was the fragrance that had always been part of Ellen O'Hara, the scent for Scarlett of comfort, of safety, of love, of life before the War
Alexandra Ripley
#8. An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.
Vitruvius
#9. Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.
Amanda Borden
#10. They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.
Anthony Horowitz
#11. I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.
Robert Wilson
#12. Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer.
Peter Sloterdijk
#13. As we sat, huddled together in this rotting, rundown building, I knew I was surrounded by the most intense love I'd ever known.
Rachel Higginson
#14. Nobody ever thinks about the flame. It always ends up alone, and surrounded by a bunch of dead moths.
Charity Parkerson
#15. I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.
Sarah Silverman
#16. There was one man stood above the rest, surrounded and engulfed within his own delusions of grandeur.
As there always seems to be.
Ross Turner
#17. We become extremely vulnerable to the ones that love us, we believe in what they say, we believe in their faith held next to us. It's law of attraction to become who your surrounded by, so instead of focusing of changing another, find some one suitable to your soul.
Nikki Rowe
#18. I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
Lauryn Hill
#19. I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
Dakota Johnson
#20. I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.
Lynn Anderson
#21. In L.A., my house is surrounded by churches, and there are no cars, so it's really nice to just walk around before I go home to check my emails from Spain, which have been coming in all night.
Jordi Molla
#22. Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.
Leslie Mann
#23. Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn't penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#24. What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
Carolyn Wells
#25. Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Stendhal
#26. I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#27. I'd rather be surround by people who make mistakes and have no problem admitting to them and learning from them than be surrounded by people who think they make none.
Tanya Masse
#28. Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
Evelyn Glennie
#29. There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
Ann Radcliffe
#30. Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. And the dog by the fender stretched himself out in the luxuriant vacancy of mind only known to dogs surrounded by a happy group of their friends.
Christopher Morley
#32. The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
Robert Toombs
#33. I'm safer than I've been in days, surrounded by the people I love most, and yet I've never wanted to cry more. For them, I hold back. I curl inward and bleed alone, inside, where no one else can see.
Victoria Aveyard
#34. When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless ...
Ani DiFranco
#36. He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.
Kim Harrison
#37. If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.
Dalai Lama
#38. I could be surrounded by a hundred people and i'd still be alone. As long as Julia wasn't with me ... i was alone.
Kahlen Aymes
#39. He'd always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being involved with him meant moving back here. Being surrounded by bad memories.
Leah Braemel
#40. He had forgotten that his paradise was surrounded by hell itself.
Felix J. Palma
#41. Sheets, towels and blankets surrounded Travis. He had fashioned a soft pallet to sleep on while I expelled the fifteen shots of tequila I'd consumed the night before. Travis had held my hair out of the toilet, and sat with me all night.
Jamie McGuire
#42. When I thought of the ways I preferred to die, I wanted to be a hundred years old and surrounded by generations of adoring descendants. Though a hair dryer and an ill-timed fall into a tub was far more likely. I never considered deer or drunk drivers.
Molly Harper
#43. For a moment Tess felt her strange, inappropriate happiness teeter. It was as though she were balanced on a narrow crevice surrounded by chasms of grief. One wrong thought and down she'd tumble.
Liane Moriarty
#44. It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.
Michael Pollan
#45. If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.
Jan Erik Vold
#46. I feel very strongly that I'm surrounded by other realities.
Ingmar Bergman
#47. I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls ... She's too precious to give up.
Megan Whalen Turner
#48. Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?
Mike Myers
#49. I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
Robert Rauschenberg
#50. The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
Emanuel Ax
#51. The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.
Tablo
#52. Imogene Duckworthy did not like pigs. She was fairly fond of cattle, having grown up surrounded by them. She hadn't been around pigs much. In fact, this was the first time she'd ever driven toward a pig farm.
Kaye George
#53. It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.
Luke Evans
#54. Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished ...
Paulo Coelho
#55. I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
G. Willow Wilson
#56. In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#57. Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.
Kurt Vonnegut
#58. I don't like heavy baggage." The driver laughed. "Who does? But before you know it, you're surrounded by it. That's life. C'est la vie." And again, he laughed happily.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Here, a man could think, surrounded by machines quietly doing the same.
Hugh Howey
#60. We are surrounded by disposables and left with the tired legacy of those who believed the earth to be inexhaustible. O
Megan Kimble
#61. Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
Ada Leverson
#62. I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just surrounded with love, when I'm with my family and we're all having a wonderful time together. There's nothing greater than your family surrounding you.
Jaclyn Smith
#63. She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon magnetism. Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride.
Mohsin Hamid
#64. We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
Alain De Botton
#65. See, they're currently in alien terrain, surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet. Humans. - Newt Scamander
J.K. Rowling
#66. My work space is so visually crammed. It's like an insane candy store. The number of textiles I'm surrounded with is mind boggling. It's a treat to come home to a nice negative space.
Colleen Atwood
#67. A nihilist is a man who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith, no matter how much that principle may be surrounded by respect.
Ivan Turgenev
#68. I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.
Angelina Jolie
#69. To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.
A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records.
Sarah Manguso
#70. Georgie was the good in me. Without her, I was sure I'd sink into the darkness of my mind and never emerge. She gave me the light to keep coming back. To crawl away from the evil I was surrounded by, the nightmares, the coldness, and she made me human again." Deck
Nashoda Rose
#71. I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
Laura Benanti
#72. To my mind, that's a bigger and brighter idea than sitting at a lonely center surrounded by cold and distant astral lamps.
David Eagleman
#73. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel.
Anna Quindlen
#74. To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power becomes a mastermind. That person can conquer fate and can have what he or she wants.
Wallace D. Wattles
#75. My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play.
John Van Hamersveld
#76. Snatched out of my own small niche by an unexpected strong current, taken in and surrounded by Jamie and his life. Caught forever among the strange currents that pulsed through this outlandish environment. The
Diana Gabaldon
#77. I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land.
Mark Kemp
#78. The world was not perfect. It was dark, evil, and full of monsters in human disguise. The world's a horrible place, and you were no safer surrounded by family than you were wandering the streets alone.
Natasha Preston
#79. To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.
Griffin Dunne
#80. No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of my friends are the people that I grew up with back in Georgia. It's really helpful to be surrounded by a world that's bigger than the entertainment industry.
Chris Lowell
#81. Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.
P. J. O'Rourke
#82. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.
Olympe De Gouges
#84. The weight of his fingers on mine, like a bird landing on a branch. It was the drop of a match. I did not see that we were surrounded by tinder until I felt it burst into flames.
Hannah Kent
#85. My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
John Dyer
#86. Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit.
Robinson Cano
#87. I am an ant here surrounded by giants. One wrong step and I will be crushed.
Sam Austin
#88. It is often forgotten that He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#89. There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#90. People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.
Terry Pratchett
#91. Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.
Misty Copeland
#92. On those grim days when he felt surrounded by the vacuum of absurdity, he always felt particularly weary. He tried to blame his weariness on the daily
Jose Saramago
#93. I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
A.R. Rahman
#94. At times it felt confusing to be surrounded by people, utterly alone and yet aware that God was my companion.
Martin Pistorius
#95. Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.
Richelle Mead
#96. Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. As I sat in the sanctuary surrounded by thousands of empty seats, here's what became clear to me: it wasn't the size of the crowd Jesus cared about; it was their level of commitment.
Kyle Idleman
#98. Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Herbert Spencer
#99. If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money might still come and snatch me away.
Cuthbert
#100. At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.
Jennifer Paynter
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