Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

- Hedy Lamarr

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

- Jo Stafford

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

- Joseph Lancaster

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

- Jonathan Raban

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

- John Keegan

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.

- Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.

- Jami Attenberg

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

- Josef Albers

Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.

- Jay Samit

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

The stage is near and dear to me.

- Bela Lugosi

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

- Gale Norton

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

- Garth Ennis

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

- E. Y. Harburg

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

- Euripides

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

- Erno Rubik

On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.

- David Gest

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

- Donna Karan

I have a Bible near my bed.

- Donald Trump

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

- Baha'u'llah