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Quotes About Proximity

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.
~ Leslie Nielsen
I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
After that I dumped earth only along the other two sides; working more slowly and donning my gas-mask as the smell grew. I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're touching your partner, leading them. Learning how to behave in that person's proximity is a skill. I love it. I can't imagine tiring of it.
~ Anton du Beke
I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.
~ Bernard Hinault
To have a tournament right where you live is very cool.
~ Jimmy Walker
Today's builders and town planners believe people inhabit 'places'. Yet medieval towns were perfect examples of what planners seek: densely populated, walkable communities in which people ate local, seasonal food, and rich and poor lived in close proximity.
~ Lucy Worsley
Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.
~ Julian Baggini
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Cuba is in some ways a perfect trading partner for Minnesota because there's so little overlap between what they are good at and they produce and what Minnesota is good at and what we produce. So it's a natural trading relationship, especially because they're so close.
~ Tina Smith
Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.
~ Gyorgy Kepes
Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near
~ Paulo Coelho
I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors.
~ Ingmar Bergman
IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single reader in proximity to a good bookstore, must be in want of a reading recommendation.
~ Sherri Erwin
Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell...Proximity without intimacy, he said.
~ Melissa Bank
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
No siege engine could equal the destructive power of Zenobia sitting so close.
~ Meljean Brook
Görülmesi en kolay ÅŸey ne çok büyük, ne çok küçük, ne çok uzak ne çok yak?n, ne çok karma??k, ne ne de çok basit oland?r.
~ Bertrand Russell
When two things have frequently existed in close temporal contiguity, either comes in time to cause the other.
~ Bertrand Russell
I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.
~ Gretchen Mol
This was because his badge was attached to his belt in close proximity to his fly, and I didn't want to seem too interested. "Sorry to barge in unannounced," he went on.
~ Sue Grafton
more than 60 percent of the global population lives within thirty miles of a coastline.
~ Susan Casey
Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved.
~ Susan Sontag
Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved. How much easier, from one's chair, far from danger, to claim the position of superiority.
~ Susan Sontag