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Tag Name "Vicinity" (21)

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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
Al Franken
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WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
Ambrose Bierce
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If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.
Daniel Taylor
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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. (Expiation)
E.F. Benson
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My vicinity affords many good walks and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.
Henry David Thoreau
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I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle.
Jim Carrey
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I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here [Alexandria], up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.
Ralph Stanley
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Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?
Robert Wright
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I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.
Sam Lipsyte
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
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It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.
Will Wright
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I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.
Alan Titchmarsh
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
Bertolt Brecht
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I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, This is Beam Me Up. Then to my right. And this is Scotty. Garret chuckled and buried his face in his hands. He asked.
Darynda Jones
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No one goes to Vegas for any sort of business. You go there to purely have fun, and as soon as you start getting in the vicinity, you feel the energy of the places. Normally as a DJ, I'm very much working, even though I'm enjoying myself, but Vegas always brings out a little something extra in me. I've had my wildest nights there!
Havana Brown
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It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
James Nicoll
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Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I saw the sea for the first time, in the vicinity of St Nazaire. It was there that I discovered the bunkers.
Paul Virilio
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
Richard Leakey
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Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?
Ron Killings
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If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
Stephen King
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There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
Werner Herzog