#surround

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#aura #classical #desire #got #i

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#autograph #grinning #just #know #something

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#concert hall #disappointment #hall #kids #now

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. ↗

— David Brin

#advance #along #begin #book #characters

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#context #create #death #destroy #disappear

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#all americans #caring #makes #need #our

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#detach #new #old #old thing #surrounds

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#black and white #color #colors #control #easier

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#fantasy #hearsay #i #indulged #life