Fiona Barton

Over the years, I've interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good fortune. But strangely, it is not always the people in the spotlight that have stayed with me. It is often those on the periphery, the bit players in the drama, that continue to haunt.

English Journalist

Peter Paige

One of the things we try to do on 'The Fosters' is shine a light on the problems and the people that get pushed to the periphery. From the very beginning of the show, when we told people we were putting foster care at the center of a TV show, even the people who work in the system were afraid.

American Actor

George Monbiot

As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.

British Writer

Demba Ba

Rennes wanted me at one point, but in France they have a problem - they don't like taking risks. But if you don't take risks, you don't get anywhere. You pass by the periphery of many things, like life and football.

French Footballer

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

When you're a young lad in a team like Arsenal, you feel like, of course, you deserve to be at the club... but you're on the periphery, and there are world-class players and more experienced players around you.

English Athlete

Louise Slaughter

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

American Politician

Sam Richardson

The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.

Michael Pollan

Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.

American Educator

Weyes Blood

American Musician

Thomas Dolby

English Musician

Refers to literal outer limits, like those of a city or park.

Physical Boundaries

Items at the periphery are not the center of attention in visual fields.

Visual Emphasis

Can describe something on the outskirts of relevance or importance.

Metaphorical Use

Used to suggest that something is not central or less important.

Figurative Margins

A concept similar to being barely noticeable or not directly in sight.

Peripheral Vision

In anatomy, it's the surface layer or outermost part of an organ.

Anatomical Surface

Often relates to skin or organ surfaces in medical discussions.

Biological Context

Relates to items attached to a computer, like a mouse or keyboard.

Computer Accessories

Peripherals enhance the computer's functionality, but the system can work without them.

Not Integral Parts

 There are those individuals who don't talk at all; there are those individuals who talk too much. There are those individuals that if you observe them in their school, you see them running the periphery fence all the school day if you let them, to those individuals who cannot stop coming to you and trying to engage you repeatedly, relentlessly,

Ami Klin: A new way to...

 they told us that they could use it too, and what's most important, what we'd found that we thought might be exceptional, in the forest there was pretty good cell phone service. That was not exceptional, we were told, and that particularly is on the periphery of the forests that are most under threat. And then something really amazing happened,

Topher White: What can...

 You want to have a resilient health system in every country that reaches out to the periphery. And that's an important priority. We're doing pretty good with immunization. We've reached 90 percent of the kids of the world with at least one dose of routine vaccine. That's the best of health interventions.

The quest for the...

 they work really well. But for the real candle problem, you don't want to be looking like this. The solution is on the periphery. You want to be looking around. That reward actually narrows our focus and restricts our possibility. Let me tell you why this is so important.

The puzzle of motivation...

 formation to help the tightly formed mass remain intact sitter Bart and his colleagues point out that it is crucial that the huddle is continually reorganized to give each penguin a chance to spend sufficient time inside the huddle compared to time on the periphery the

Penguins Do the Wave to...

 represented adequately and this actually has provided some representation but there's a great disconnect between the center Jakarta and the periphery and this decentralization was a way of dealing with that I don't think they'll get away with rolling it back because

Is invisibility the...

 and keeping their downward-facing eye open. This may help them stay alert to threats from the depths. Similar pressures keep birds partially awake. Mallard ducks sleep in groups, but some must inevitably be on the peripheries.

Can you be awake and...

 I was always on the periphery of art. By being President of RISD I've gone deep into art, and art is a wonderful thing, fine art, pure art. You know, when people say, "I don't get art.

John Maeda: How art,...

 and we visualize them operating at these global scales, but not forgotten out on an industrial periphery, but woven through the very fabric and life of the city itself.

Liam Young: Planet City...

 the pair remain on the periphery of the but the rest of the family can still hear them

Periphery