Surrounding Area Quotes

#1. You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Haruki Murakami

#2. The Law of Rent demonstrates that no single human being gives land and location its overall value - its rent. Land values arise from the wealth that exists in the surrounding area, wealth that we have created together and continue to create in cooperation and in competition with one another.

Martin Adams

#3. A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Daniel Handler

#4. What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

Ronald Dworkin

#7. She never said so out loud, but some things speak loud enough on their own.

David Arnold

#8. Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

Mary Beth McKenzie

#9. Now that they had a secure hiding place almost a home it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time. What mattered was that the room should exist. To know that it was there inviolate was almost the same as being in it.

George Orwell

#10. I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#11. I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

Robin McLeavy

#12. I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

Erin Gruwell

#13. Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of psychology

Robert Anton Wilson

#14. Personal space refers to an area with invisible boundaries surrounding a person's body into which intruders may not come.

Robert Sommer

#15. If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or legislation; but by fathers and mothers exerting a moral influence and example in their own families, tempered with love and understanding.

J. Spencer Kinard

#16. Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there.

Joe Haldeman