Surroundings Quotes - Page 15

• My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist

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• After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted comfortable surroundings while plotting to murder one famed historical figure with another one. ~Cat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Historical, Rooms, Murder

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with happiness against his poor surroundings, she saw it was enough for him. More than enough, as the smile that kept curling up on his face told her.

  Grace Lin

  Boys, Buffalo, Faces

  Grace Lin (2009). “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon”, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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• The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Sorrow

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

  Rebecca Solnit

  World, Arms, Mystery

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

  Jane Hamilton

  Fighting, Challenges, Tasks

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• We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.

  Alain de Botton

  Self, Ideas, Risk

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.55, Penguin UK

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• From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Art, Book, Two

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Girl At The Lion d'Or”, p.83, Random House

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• [Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Giving, Promise

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• People in bigger towns are very aware of their surroundings. The people in the smaller markets, they will show up with flip-flops and shorts and just kind of already have a buzz on.

  Pauly Shore

  People, Buzz, Flip

  Source: www.tucsonweekly.com

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• A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Building, Should, Site

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1925). “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925 "Wendingen" Series”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I am naturally pretty shy. I've come out of it a pretty good bit because I'm kind of a strange combination of being really shy and also being a born entertainer. I've got both in me and I guess it depends on my surroundings as to what's going to come out more prominently.

  Leigh Bingham Nash

  Being Real, Shy, Strange

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, People, Lessons

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.140, Rajpal & Sons

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• Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

  Kirby Wright

  Memories, Writing, Juice

  "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with George Wallace, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

  David Abram

  Thinking, Animal, Body

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• With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Sex, Philosophical, Men

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• That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Half, Daily Life, Entertaining

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more.

  Yaya Toure

  Animal, Air, Water

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.

  Zhuangzi

  Baby, Moving, Eye

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• Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Self, Inner Peace, Mind

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• To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Cost, Merit

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

  Albert Speer

  Intuition, Shapes, Adjusting

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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• It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

  Famke Janssen

  Way, Fit, Bigger

  "The Phoenix Rises as Famke Janssen and James Marsden Talk X-Men: The Last Stand". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 23, 2006.

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