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On mobile, make sure Facebook's app can know where you are. That not only makes features like Nearby Friends possible but also makes your feed have a few items from your location. -- Robert Scoble
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun. -- Dashiell Hammett
My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere. -- Akon
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby. -- Zaha Hadid
As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed. -- Sarah Carter
I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard. -- Jack Canfield
If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. -- Alison Gopnik
The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky. -- Seth Shostak
My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her. -- Joanne Woodward
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby. -- Chanakya
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. -- Steven Chu
If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock. -- Gustav Klimt
I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright. -- Lee Kuan Yew
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby. -- Susan Oliver
I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby. -- Alexis Denisof
Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum. -- Alice Waters
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected. -- Salman Rushdie
When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share. -- Bryan Batt
My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it. -- Rachel Nichols
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When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left. -- Aubrey Plaza
I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways. -- Ben Affleck
The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo. -- Seth Shostak
I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows. -- Kristen Schaal
I was a bit odd as a kid, because there were so little outlets for me. There was no theatre except for the odd community theatre and school shows. The only movie theatre was at the Canadian Forces Base nearby in Comox, so it either showed kiddie flicks for the families and restricted stuff for the men. -- Kim Cattrall
I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either! -- Randeep Hooda
I can stay in the bath for, well, the longest has been seven or eight hours. I get completely set up with my laptop so I can watch 'The Sopranos,' put out some scented candles, music. I have a towel nearby so I can dry my hand to change the music or the TV. I make a little heaven for myself. And then I just refill and refill. -- Suki Waterhouse
The world is too quiet without you nearby. -- Lemony Snicket
Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages. -- Narendra Modi
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall. -- Harold Brodkey
Heaven is a place nearby, so there's no need to say goodbye. -- Lene Marlin
I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories. -- Dianne Wiest
Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby. -- Amy Lee
Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. -- Evanescence
There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby and invisible. -- Maria Sabina
But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. -- Daniel Handler
Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix -- Taryn Manning
Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix. -- Taryn Manning
Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing -- Richard Branson
I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. -- William Standish Knowles
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. -- Jeff B. Davis
There should be some kind of radar that lets you know when your soul mate is nearby. -- Susane Colasanti
However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples. -- Werner Herzog
Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week. -- Malcolm Boyd
Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week. -- Malcolm Boyd
But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease. -- Robert Fulghum
I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby. -- Mary Tyler Moore
The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen! -- Robert Jordan
I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby. -- Sharon Creech
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. -- Vernor Vinge
If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up. -- Peter David
Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby. -- Wes Fesler
Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night. -- Henry Hough
Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail. -- Marilyn vos Savant
In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby. -- Bob Marley
I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about. -- Dave Barry
Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics? -- Gloria Steinem
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby. -- Bill Mollison
I feel an extremely annoyed thunderstorm nearby," Kade warned. "Actually, I'm the one annoyed. The thunderstorm could go either way." - Storm Glass -- Maria V. Snyder
Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen; we just have to remember to have the rescue crew nearby when it strikes. -- S. Elle Cameron
Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit. -- Chanakya
My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden. -- Jeff Sessions
But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet. -- Wislawa Szymborska
We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby. -- Jack Adams
On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby. -- Brennan Manning
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue. -- Theognis of Megara
I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course. -- Joe Henderson
So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby. -- Jim Butcher
If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. -- Alison Gopnik
Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools. -- Derwin L. Gray
We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby. -- Paul P. Enns
We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine. -- Daniel Goldin
I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally put one in a song. -- Leonard Cohen
I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality. -- John McCain
If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks. -- Sadie Frost
In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town. -- W. C. Fields
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit. -- Larry Wall
If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks. -- Sadie Frost
Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time. -- Richelle Mead
The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls. -- Terence McKenna
If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us. -- Martin Buber
Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree. -- J. K. Rowling
The three of them left the noodle shop and went to a nearby love hotel. It was on the edge of town, on a street where love hotels alternated with gravestone dealers." -- Haruki Murakami
I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn't be so hard, right? -- Heidi Julavits
I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby. -- Mark Nepo
Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh. -- Marc Riboud
As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich. -- Sarah Dessen
When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse. -- Steven Wright
Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball. -- Gloria Whelan
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand. -- Richard Louv
Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew. -- Ewan McGregor
You have it in your God-given power, the willingness to make the years ahead of you to become a brighter one. Avoid things that will not make you a success in the nearby future! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache. -- Banana Yoshimoto
It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses. -- Carl Sagan
If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop. -- Andrew Mason
Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby. -- Debbie Ford
Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless. -- Maya Angelou
I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project. -- Caitlin Flanagan
The contents of the glass don't matter; what's more important is to realize there's a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook. -- Shawn Achor
Playing along in the yard, The blue sky sparkles against the earthly green,Creating such harmony!A pond, nearby.Untroubled waters mirrors the ether's dreams.A grand echo of my Divine Heart!I am One -- Arnaud Saint-Paul
One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl. -- Lisa Kleypas

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