Quotes About Proximity

Wilma owned a pit bull and they lived in separate trailers, side by side, and sometimes, when she was angry, she and the pit bull looked like kin to him.

If we happen to pass within fifty yards of any of our other drones, so that they become operable again, let me know.

On a crowded train, for example, it's no big deal if you're squeezed in against other people. But if someone stands right next to you when the train is empty, it's actually kind of repellant

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Its just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use.

Mind you, you have to have women around you in order to beat them—at the very least, they need to be within arm's reach.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

If you want the girl next door, go next door.

He went on to the outside door, opened it, and stepped back to let me out. Or I thought he was going to let me out. I stepped forward and he stepped sideways, and we bumped into each other again. Suddenly we were standing in the doorway, nose to nose. This time neither of us moved. We stood just there. The moment would have passed if either one of us had reacted normally. Or maybe we did react normally. It was a heck of a kiss.

Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think

Later that night, Sylvie sat in bed with a book open in her lap. She was too sleepy to read, but the proximity of the book was comforting. Telling

There were eleven months between me and Liam. We came out of her on each other's tails; one after the other, as fast as a gang-bang, as fast as an infidelity.

It is really impressive and makes us proud that in a lot of places in Indonesia, a church is close to a mosque, and even in many places, both Islamic and Christian communities cooperated to build a mosque or church.

Don't ever phone if you can possibly come yourself. Don't ever leave if you can stay.

It had seemed as close as a star to the moon.

I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires -- all for eighty dollars a month.

so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires

Every major press organization works out of its own little space in the White House. Picture a mini cruise-ship cabin, or a row of four seats on an airplane: that's about all the space we have. You spend hundreds of hours inches away from your colleagues.

I like getting my feet massaged; I'll get whoever's closest to do it.

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.

they'd chosen this rental for its proximity to the hospital and signed a six-month lease, which had turned into month-to-

He didn't know why she was standing so close , much less touching him, but he didn't have time to worry about it.

He claims that the gods, and we, are both right here all the time, a shadow's thickness apart. We've no distance to cross at all to get to each other.