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Quotes About Proximity

I am very short-sighted but I don't wear my glasses as they give me a headache, so if everyone could just stand closer to me that would help.
~ Sara Pascoe
I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
~ Edith Pearlman
I always like the players to be within 10 to 15 metres of each other. When the attacking players try what I am asking them to do, and it breaks down, there are players close enough to then go and win the ball back and counter press the game.
~ Brendan Rodgers
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
~ Ben Nicholson
I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
~ Ina Garten
The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that?
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
He's next to you, right next to you in fact, so close, or . . . he isn't.
~ Richard Siken
The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.
~ Richelle Mead
The truth is — you are as close to God as you choose to be.
~ Rick Warren
Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.
~ Roald Dahl
Sandy's face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She had turned in her seat so that she had one thigh on each side of my leg. Her chest was against my arm. In another minute we wouldn't have to go anywhere to have sex.
~ Robert B. Parker
If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.
~ Robert Capa
Pete was relaxed around them, so Maggie tolerated them, but only when Pete was near.
~ Robert Crais
Pike moved very close until he stood over her. Stealing her space. Increasing the pressure.
~ Robert Crais
Criminals strike close to home just as the average person chooses stores where he shops daily.
~ Robert Graysmith
There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.
~ László Krasznahorkai
Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.
~ Peter Buffett
Familiarity increases carnality.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
All I've ever wanted was to be near you.
~ Shannon Hale, Enna Burning
The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.
~ Frank Zappa
The farther away, the closer the home becomes.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.
~ Jon Miller
Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.
~ Diogenes Laertius
Civilization diminishes proportionally to the distance from Paris.
~ Jeff Vandermeer