Adjacent Quotes

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data. — David Shields

If I have a near-beer, I'm near beer. And if I'm near beer, I'm close to tequila. And if I'm close to tequila, I'm adjacent to cocaine. — Craig Ferguson

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible. — Steven Johnson

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking. — William Gibson

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn. — Sally Field

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible. — Peter Thiel

Legs pinched together like bread loafs in a shared pan, linebackers in adjacent seats flying coach fare, chubby cats eating from a single dish. — Dennis Vickers

The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth. — Clayton M Christensen

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends? — Abraham Lincoln

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits. — William Apess

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board. — Arnon Goldfinger

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand. — Chester A. Arthur

The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but ... each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things. — Edith Wharton

I like getting massages regularly. So much so, that I built a massage room adjacent to my office. — Stewart Rahr

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening. — Julie Roberts

There was no escaping what I had become, the nothing girl...again. — Aubrey Moore

Blue had two rules: stay away from boys, because they're trouble, and stay away from raven boys, because they were bastards. — Maggie Stiefvater

They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings. — Emily Dickinson

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another. — Diana Trilling

Death and life were just adjacent verandas. — Salman Rushdie