#surround

A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar. ↗

— Sean Booth

#i #i think #like #listening #lot

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#enriching #feeling #i #me #mind

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#covered #cut #generally #hoop #leather

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#figures #landscape #little #perfect #relaxing

There was hostility surrounding doing my job. ↗

— Charles Moore

#hostility #job #surrounding

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#appreciate #around #goodness #people #positive

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#among #architectural #describe #details #enough