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Quotes About Surrounded

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I'm surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I'm really spoiled. I laugh a lot, in my day.
~ Jenna Fischer
Damp veils of mist swirled around them. They were dreadfully cold (Moomintroll thought longingly of his woolly trousers) and surrounded completely by an awful floating emptiness. "I always thought clouds were soft and woolly and nice to be in," said Sniff, sneezing. "Ugh! I'm beginning to be sorry I ever came on this expedition.
~ Tove Jansson
An absence of gringos visiting the city meant that it was easy to find a taxi; they surrounded and implored me.
~ Paul Theroux
Wyeth was perhaps stupid. No, he was not stupid, he was surrounded and isolated by comfort.
~ Pearl S. Buck
[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.
~ Unknown
I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
~ David Foster Wallace
It seemed like I was surrounded by great and wonderful people unstable as uranium.
~ Woody Allen
All right. They're on our left. They're on our right. They're in front of us, they're behind us. They can't get away this time." —COLONEL LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER
~ Jeff Shaara
In the end we had 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
The most dramatic events lie ahead of us. Israel today is an island of less than nine million immigrants surrounded by a sea of three hundred million enemies, many of them eager to wipe the tiny nation off the map.
~ David Jeremiah
It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.
~ David Levithan
We are surrounded by so many books, so many words, so many thoughts... and not a single one can help us. I think, What's the point of all magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life.
~ David Levithan
It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together. So much of the information we received was ephemeral -- pixels on screen, words passing in the air. But here I felt that thoughts had weight.
~ David Levithan
Danny feels his somberness confirmed __ how else can one feel when surrounded by such a majority of ghosts? You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
~ David Levithan
In the midst of things.
~ Horace
Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You're constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way.
~ John Krasinski
Right after any kind of procedure you want to be surrounded by love and you need good healing vibes and positive energy around you.
~ Camille Grammer
Except for him, most of our fellow exiles had been shrunken by their experience, either absolutely through the aforementioned maladies of migration, or relatively, surrounded by Americans so tall they neither looked through nor looked down on these newcomers. They simply looked over them.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
~ Ville Valo
Hard to feel confident when you're surrounded by horse-sized wolves. - Emmett Cullen
~ Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
The house is on a knoll, surrounded on four sides by a yard, on three sides
~ Dean Koontz
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
~ Imelda Marcos
We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary.
~ Daniel H. Wilson