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  • Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.

    Powerful   Fear   Groups  
    Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster
  • 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.

    Hands   Ovaries   Faces  
    Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.278, Macmillan
  • You introduced me to Danger and Will Robinson, but you neglected to acquaint me with the other two.” “Fine,But you can’t make fun of their names. They’re very sensitive.” “I would never.” I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, “This is Beam Me Up.” Then to my right. “And this is Scotty.

    Fun   Names   Two  
  • So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.

    Oil   Trying   Musician  
    Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.78, Random House
  • 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

    Fire   Volcanoes   Titles  
    Source: collider.com
  • The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

    Wall   Enemy   Stranger  
    John Norman (2011). “Outlaw of Gor: Gor”, p.25, Hachette UK
  • A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

    Life   Happiness   Smile  
    Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    People   Causes   Lucky  
    Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.291, Penguin
  • ...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 (2015). “Spook Stories - Complete Collection: 25 Supernatural, Mystery, Ghost and Haunting Tales”, p.80, e-artnow
  • Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

  • 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.

    War   Ocean   Sea  
    Source: ctheory.net
  • Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?

  • Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

    Dream   Reading   Book  
    Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Sacred   Bones   Holy  
  • 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.

    Country   Years   Two  
    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社
  • My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.

    Coffee   Weekend   Gps  
  • At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.

    Fun   Past   Color  
    Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.24, Harper Collins
  • There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coffee and occasionally cheering at an exceptionally well-flung bucket of napalm.

    Cheer   Coffee   Fire  
    Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”
  • Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

    Peace   Self   Way  
  • I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

  • And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

    Book   People   Age  
    "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.
  • To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.

    Space   Body   Fields  
    "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 40, 1988.
  • Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using a common language, without necessarily recognizing those shared values. You just start following your own vector, propelled along by people in your immediate vicinity. And then one day, you look up and realize that all those individual trajectories have turned into a wave.

  • When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.

    Laura Kipnis (2009). “Against Love: A Polemic”, p.24, Vintage
  • Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

    Brother   Nice   Apology  
    Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”
  • Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

    Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.259, Simon and Schuster
  • After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.

    Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

    Mistake   Lying   Impact  
  • It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

    Cat   Ceilings   Wake Up  
    Usenet article "Gay and straight", groups.google.com. February 14, 2003.
  • 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?

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