Close Quotes

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one on afterwards to close the pores. It's inexpensive!

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.

My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

My grandfather and I were very close.

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

Do we need distance to get close?

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

I love seeing tennis up close.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

All of my family is so close. We're always over at each other's houses.

I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

My family's really close.

I'm really close to all of my family.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

I usually only play with very close friends.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close to Kraft Services as it can possibly get!

To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.