#nearest

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France. ↗

— John Dyer

#content #cornwall #discovered #explore #france

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#boat #clothes #crew #crew members #four

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! ↗

— Frances Burney

#dare #dearest #dedicate #dislikes #fears

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#myself #nearest #shakespeare #would

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#dearest #even #nearest #often #people

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#death #nearest #parents #store #taking

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#course #doctor #feeling #golf #golf course

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#despise #dropped #gave #i #into

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#any #comes #company #continental #corporation