Quotes with around

Quotes 261 till 280 of 605.

  • Alice Hoffman Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alice Hoffman Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
    - +
     0
  • Campbell Newman It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carl Andre It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
    - +
     0
  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Kingsolver It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Brandt It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
    Camera in London
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Bobby Flay It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
    - +
     0
  • Mario Vargas Llosa It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist (1936 - )
    - +
     0
  • Gertrude Stein It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Shahn It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Ehrenreich It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
    - +
     0
  • Carolyn Murphy It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Davison It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
    - +
     0
  • Bette Davis It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Simmons It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type of player. I'm 6'10'' and a bit bigger than he is as a player. I also think I'm a bit different and play a different position. He's more of a guard, and I can play all around through five.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Geldof It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bobby McFerrin It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benny Green Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.
    Benny Green
    American musician
    - +
     0
All around famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 14)