Robert Rodriguez

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.

American Director

Richard Rogers

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

British Architect

Salman Rushdie

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.

Indian Novelist

Kim Brooks

I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if I ever needed help, I could ask a nearby adult.

American Writer

Koel Mallick

Nothing can beat a jogging or even a stroll at a nearby park. But the most important thing in staying fit is watch your diet.

Indian Actress

Sandra Faber

Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.

American Scientist

Erika Christensen

I'm close with my whole family, but it requires email and texting because they don't all live nearby!

American Actress

William Standish Knowles

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

Taryn Manning

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

Dianne Wiest

I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

Understand 'nearby' as closer than walking distance, often within sight or a few minutes' walk.

Proximity Clues

'Nearby' suggests something exists or will happen close to you or a referenced location.

Implied Presence

The exact distance 'nearby' refers to can vary, but it's always a relative, short distance.

Location Ambiguity

 During the quake, many buildings between six and fifteen stories tall collapsed. What's strange is that while shorter buildings nearby did keep standing, buildings taller than fifteen stories were also less damaged, and the midsized buildings that collapsed were observed shaking far more violently than the earthquake itself.

Why do buildings fall in...

 exotic fruit trees and monarch butterflies and my grandfather he loved to fish and hike so I would often help out in the garden or go on his little fishing trips with him by the nearby lake I visit that Lake a few years later it was fenced off by the fishing industry and the water was black with

Millennials are the...

 An empty fourth pit suggests that the grand project could not be finished before the emperor's death. In addition, nearby chambers contain figures of musicians and acrobats, workers and government officials, and various exotic animals, indicating that Emperor Qin had more plans for the afterlife

The incredible history...

 that helped ensure the continuation of her species for millions of years before. In the wild, cats needed sharp claws for climbing, hunting, and self-defense. Sharpening their claws on nearby surfaces kept them conditioned and ready, helped stretch their back and leg muscles,

Why do cats act so...

 This is called fixed action pattern. Think of fixed action pattern like a reflex. Your yawn makes me yawn. Similar to a domino effect, one person's yawn triggers a yawn in a person nearby that has observed the act. Once this reflex is triggered, it must run its course.

Why is yawning...

 We are the only advanced civilization in the solar system, but that doesn't mean that there is no microbial life nearby. In fact, the planets and moons you see here could host life -- all of them -- and we know that, and it's a strong possibility.

Nathalie Cabrol: How...

 and that they outlive their creators. Maybe biological life is just a passing phase. Well, within the next 15 years, we could start seeing real spectroscopic information from promising nearby planets

Questions No One Knows...

 while volcanoes are some of the most destructive forces of nature they have also helped make life on earth possible volcanic ash provides nutrients to nearby soil making the land fertile

Volcanoes 101 PIPE National...

 It begins when cancer cells from an initial tumor invade nearby normal tissue. As the cells proliferate, they spread via one of the three common routes of

How does cancer spread...

 The meat is positioned so deep in the narrow box, it's out of reach of the crow's beak. But Alex has positioned a number of other objects nearby.