#surrounded

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#harry #harry potter #potter #publication #some

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. ↗

— George Saunders

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

#being #godliness #help #i #learned

I'm surrounded by great guitar players. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#guitar #guitar players #i #players #surrounded

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ↗

— Jane Austen

#every man #man #neighborhood #spies #surrounded

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. ↗

— James A. Michener

#american men #completely #dozen #group #men

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true. ↗

— Samuel Schmid

#being #island #joke #land #never

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#because #came #class #curious #enjoying

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#could #i #life #live #mind

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#familiar #god #i #looking #me