Surrounds Quotations

We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us.

Sexuality surrounds us like a dangerous aura. The same reverence that is given to the spirit is not given to the flesh. We have had a sexual revolution, but the sexual revolution only has made sex more pervasive. It hasn't granted the level of reverence and respect that it should have.

Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.

I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Love. Do you feel it? It encircles you in its embrace of simplicity. Moment by moment love is there in the space that surrounds you, in the cells that have formed you, in the breath that sustains you.

More uncertainty, however, surrounds the outlook for inflation,

Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!

Because we have a dome now, instead of a flat roof, the telescope sits a lot higher on its mount. They built a platform that surrounds the base so that it is the perfect height for students to look into it.

I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me.

Hmm, the best thing about being in the NFL? In America it's the No.1 sport; it's exciting, fun, so to me the best thing is the buzz that surrounds football on and off the field.

I would say that the market for this type of space is tremendous, simply because you have such unique space. You have an office facility that surrounds the fabrication space. It would be extraordinarily valuable to a whole host of companies.

Joe approaches modern agriculture with the attitude and passion that surrounds a successful family farmer.

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

I will also say that there's a kind of aura around young male writers, say age 26, the hot male writer thing that never surrounds women playwrights. And there's a tremendous irony there, because the playwrights most interesting to read and see now, the ones who are really pushing the work forward aesthetically, are almost all women.

I think there's an excitement that surrounds the whole Internet component, even though it's still not the bulk of what they do. But it also becomes an institutional darling almost immediately.

It feels like there was a really, in some ways, kind of fashiony, contrived feeling that surrounds that scene. We always kind of were going around saying we're writing the music we wanted to be writing and somehow found ourselves in the middle of that. There were very few bands that were labeled that way that we really respected musically or were good friends with.

We know that the people choosing to buy at BEACHWALK not only appreciate our exceptional location, clubhouse and amenities, they also care about preserving the environmental integrity of the community. By contributing to Tampa Bay Watch we're playing a part in protecting and preserving the fragile nature of the environment that surrounds us.

This statue will serve as a reminder to all those who visit the Peace Garden of the love and hope for the peace my son always held in his heart. This sculpture and the Center that surrounds it will carry Tupac's message on down to our children's children.

Fanaticism appears where a genius surrounds himself with a whole bunch of idiots.

You can never change the scenery that surrounds you. You can run from the fists that pound you, but you cannot escape your feelings. I've crawled every sewer from here to there and I've never done it. And I burn silently.

We wanted to provide the kitchen as the hub of the space, sort of like in an old house. Everything surrounds the kitchen in the home and we wanted it to be the center of everything here in the residence.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

Even now, I'm looking forward to 2009. The fans will rally behind it, and there's more energy and more excitement that surrounds it. I think you have that goal at the end of the rainbow to look forward to, to get to 2009.

Everything surrounds him. He's our leader. He's well-known and he's being heavily-recruited.

Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.

Don't join America's collective amnesia for the suffering that seems so distant but in fact surrounds us, ... Don't forget about the forgotten people in this world.

Florida stands ready to lend a helping hand to ensure students can carry on with their studies, ... We want these students to have the ability to stay in school and we want their families to have the peace of mind of knowing that their son or daughter will continue their education, regardless of the tragedy that surrounds them now.

Fear is not a word that describes what I feel when I step out on a tee with Tiger. He's the best player in the world. But it's more of a challenge. That's the word. Challenge. I love that challenge. I love that stage. To play with Tiger, and to see the circus that surrounds you, it makes me focus on my game. It's intense. A different atmosphere.

There's pluses and minuses to it. It all depends on how well he can adapt. Obviously, the coaches he surrounds himself with will have a lot to do with it.

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

The rhododendrons, plots of wild strawberries, flame azaleas, Solomon's seal, sweet shrub, mountain laurel, ginseng, Fraser magnolia...create a seemingly infinite green tapestry that surrounds the trail.

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

This in not just a condemnation of the Holocaust. It is a condemnation of all the atrocities in the past and a reminder that terror still surrounds us.

There's a negative aura that surrounds BlackBerries. They've been known to be sort of troublesome for some people.

There's an aura that surrounds certain guys, whether it's truth or fiction I don't know, but it's the way they're perceived by the opposition,

It is really amazing how much community pride surrounds this facility. This building signifies Dublin. People recognize it and know they are in Dublin. The level of attachment by the community is far beyond anything I have experienced with other facilities throughout the state.

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.

Structural productivity continues to grow at a firm pace, and rebuilding activity following the hurricanes should boost real GDP growth for a while, ... More uncertainty, however, surrounds the outlook for inflation.

The mere fact that publicity surrounds this case ought not to deprive the defendant of presenting his full and complete defense.

I love the energy that surrounds this tournament. You know, there's nothing like a night session here. Obviously, I've gotten amazing crowd support here over the years.

I don't know if the problem surrounds the quarterbacks or coaches in Washington, but I do know not one QB has looked good in this system.

Chaos surrounds him out there. I had to handle it for five minutes at the end today and I was frustrated. He probably deals with that every day.

He surrounds himself with quality, trustworthy people, many of whom are locals. His various businesses have helped turn Plainville around. Before, young families could not make a living and moved away - not because they wanted to, but because they had to. It was like the very slow death of a community.

He surrounds himself with quality people. Some of the other people who left were more dedicated to Steve than they were to North high school. That's fine. That speaks a ton about what kind of person Steve is.

The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.