Vicinity Quotes

• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, People, Age

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Europe, Turkeys, Saying Yes

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coffee and occasionally cheering at an exceptionally well-flung bucket of napalm.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cheer, Coffee, Fire

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Looks, Vulture, Bounds

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• Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?

  Robert Wright

  Nature, Grateful, Thinking

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• Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Mistake, Lying, Impact

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• The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

  Richard Leakey

  Elephants, Tourism, Tourists

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• I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Live Life, Lessons, Retreat

  Sam Lipsyte (2005). “Home Land: A Novel”, p.54, Macmillan

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• People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.

  Al Franken

  People, Causes, Lucky

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.291, Penguin

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• Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Mean, Sneezing, Literature

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• If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

  Stephen King

  Ponies, Seeing, Ifs

  Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 1: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

  Will Wright

  People, Coworker, Neighbor

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• My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Years, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

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• I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Home, Blow, Jewels

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Powerful, Fear, Groups

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster

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• When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.

  Laura Kipnis

  Dinner Guests, Backyards, Culture

  Laura Kipnis (2009). “Against Love: A Polemic”, p.24, Vintage

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• The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

  Terence McKenna

  Healthy, Darkness, Psilocybin

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• Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity, claiming the attention we withhold. The thing which calls our attention may be a repressed experience or some unexpressed and important part of who we are. Whatever we have denied may stop us and dam the creative flow of our lives. Avoiding pain, we may linger in the vicinity of our wounds, sometime for many years, gathering the courage to experience them.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Integrity, Years

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• The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

  John Norman

  Wall, Enemy, Stranger

  John Norman (2011). “Outlaw of Gor: Gor”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

  Antonio Carlos Jobim

  Swings, United States, Cuba

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• I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Leadership, Wise, People

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• Like most Israelis, I know very little about the Arabs. We just look down on them and see them as a threat. We have absolutely no experience with a democratic country in our vicinity. Is it good or bad for us? I am convinced that democracy isn't just good for the people in those countries, but for Israel as well.

  Tom Segev

  Country, Israel, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?

  Ron Killings

  Gentleman, Superstar, Maidens

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• I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle.

  Jim Carrey

  Tolle

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