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Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel. -- Barton Gellman
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection. -- Walt Whitman
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. -- Simone Weil
It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street. -- Leslie Cockburn
I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed. -- Steven Shainberg
I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in. -- Amanda Lindhout
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
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What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round. -- Jamie Oliver
The best thing about New York is working late into the night. At 1 in the morning on a Saturday, to be still working, there's an immense satisfaction in being enclosed by it. -- Colm Toibin
I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about. -- Ann Cleeves
When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it. -- Ted Lyons
I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out. -- Dave Grohl
As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep. -- Jim Crace
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. -- Emily Greene Balch
I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic. -- Mark Consuelos
The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage. -- Marcus du Sautoy
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life. -- Alice Morse Earle
In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London. -- Peter Capaldi
One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters. -- Mary Frann
In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth. -- Steve Carell
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. -- Lord Byron
From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space. -- Kenneth Frampton
I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. -- Eva Braun
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space. -- Marshall McLuhan
A poet is a world enclosed in a man. -- Victor Hugo
Our existence and our environment enclosed entities of divinity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed -- Maggie Stiefvater
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls -- Robert Walser
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed -- May Sarton
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True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God. -- Catherine Doherty
The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies. -- Italo Calvino
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own. -- Francis Bacon
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. -- Martial
In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. -- Elinor Glyn
Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word. -- Peter Sloterdijk
I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against. -- Lauren Groff
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like. -- Marc Cooper
I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors. -- Patti Smith
I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone. -- Joanne Harris
You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can. -- Colin Hanks
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. -- Lord Byron
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings. -- James Ellroy
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.... -- Khalil Gibran
I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie? -- Charles M. Schulz
How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.... -- D. H. Lawrence
Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag -- Laura Esquivel
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe. -- Saint John Chrysostom
I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of this. -- Ernesto Zedillo
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. -- Theodor Adorno
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. -- John Calvin
As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. -- Michel de Montaigne
That sounds really simplistic, but if I'm in an enclosed space, or my apartment, and I live very close to a park - there's something about being outside and being near things that are green. -- Ingrid Michaelson
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin. -- George Eliot

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