Vicinity Quotes

• Un corazón bondadoso es una fuente de alegría, que hace que todo lo que está a su alrededor se convierta en sonrisas.

  Washington Irving

  Vida, Felicidad, Sonrisa

  Washington Irving (2015). "Viejas Navidades: 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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• Había algo en estar cerca de Grahame Coats que siempre hacía que el gordo Charlie (a) hablara con clichés y (b) empezara a soñar despierto con enormes helicópteros negros que primero abrían fuego y luego dejaban caer cubos de napalm en llamas sobre las oficinas de la agencia Grahame Coats. El gordo Charlie no estaría en la oficina en esas ensoñaciones. Estaría sentado en una silla fuera de un pequeño café al otro lado de Aldwych, sorbiendo un café espumoso y animando de vez en cuando a un cubo de napalm excepcionalmente bien lanzado.

  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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• Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Mistake, Lying, Impact

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Estornudar sin hacer el ridículo. Eso significa no sofocarse ni rociar a las personas cercanas.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Mean, Sneezing, Literature

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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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• 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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• Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

  Edgar Cayce

  Peace, Self, Way

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• If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.

  Daniel Taylor

  Sacred, Bones, Holy

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• WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Women, Animal

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.239, University of Georgia Press

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• Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using a common language, without necessarily recognizing those shared values. You just start following your own vector, propelled along by people in your immediate vicinity. And then one day, you look up and realize that all those individual trajectories have turned into a wave.

  Steven Johnson

  Thinking, People, One Day

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• At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Past, Color

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, "This is Beam Me Up." Then to my right. "And this is Scotty." Garret chuckled and buried his face in his hands. He asked.

  Darynda Jones

  Hands, Ovaries, Faces

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.278, Macmillan

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• Mi generación era reservada, melancólica, ambiciosa, fanfarrona, y esta generación es simpática. Totalmente. Me los imagino caminando con chips GPS que les avisan cuando un amigo está cerca, y sus GPS les guían hasta el otro con voces electrónicas de señora y se sientan juntos en una cafetería y se envían mensajes de texto mientras miran su correo electrónico y saltan y saltan por Facebook para ver quién ha publicado fotos de su fin de semana.

  Garrison Keillor

  Coffee, Weekend, Gps

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• Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

  Thomas Moore

  Soul, Found, Taboo

  Thomas Moore (1992). "El cuidado del alma: una guía para cultivar la profundidad y lo sagrado en la vida cotidiana", Harpercollins

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• You introduced me to Danger and Will Robinson, but you neglected to acquaint me with the other two.” “Fine,But you can’t make fun of their names. They’re very sensitive.” “I would never.” I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, “This is Beam Me Up.” Then to my right. “And this is Scotty.

  Darynda Jones

  Fun, Names, Two

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• ...la vecindad con el mar es deseable, porque es más fácil no hacer nada junto al mar que en cualquier otro lugar, y porque bañarse y tomar el sol en la orilla no puede considerarse un empleo, sino sólo una apoteosis de holgazanería. ("Expiación")

  E.F. Benson

  Mar, Empleo, Apoteosis

  E. F. Benson (2015). "Spook Stories - Complete Collection: 25 Supernatural, Mystery, Ghost and Haunting Tales", p.80, e-artnow.

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• Llegar a ser plenamente humano significa aprender a convertir mi gratitud por estar vivo en un bien común concreto. Significa ser más amable con la debilidad humana. Significa practicar el perdón por mi fracaso y el de todos los demás a la hora de estar a la altura de las normas divinas. Significa aprender a olvidarme de mí mismo con regularidad para atender a los demás seres de mi entorno. Significa vivir de modo que el "soy humano" no se convierta en una excusa para nada. Significa recibir la condición humana como una bendición y no como una maldición, en toda su dolorosamente frágil y redentora realidad.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitud, Significado, Bendición

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