Close Quotes:
We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup.
Leonard Cohen
I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan Quayle
For me, it’s always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that’s close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can’t stand the way I look.
Johnny Depp
I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.
Brad Pitt
My Struggles is a record close to me. It’s about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
Missy Elliott
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
Audre Lorde
The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
Wendell Berry
I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.
Robert H. Schuller
I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits. I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
Ron White
I’ve never even come close to having a one-night stand.
Megan Fox
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
Ezra Taft Benson
Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their father in the rearing of your children. Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‘Oh, I forgot that bit,’ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!
Richard P. Feynman
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
Anne Lamott
I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I’ve seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
Anne Lamott
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
Molly Ivins
Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn’t have to be right, it just has to be close enough for government work. If they understand what you mean, it doesn’t matter what you say or how you say it.
Molly Ivins
One seldom expects the country’s president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter’s assessment of Elvis Presley’s appeal – ‘energy, rebelliousness and good humor’ – is remarkably close to the mark.
Molly Ivins
Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.
Bobby Knight
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they’re ashamed of.
Gloria Steinem
I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, ‘It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.’
Gloria Steinem
I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That’s 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.
Ric Flair
One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.
Jada Pinkett Smith
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
Henri Nouwen
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
Donald Rumsfeld
When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S Truman
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra
As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe-shine boys or the barbers or the people in the restaurants, because it’s Mr. Joe Doakes who is very close to reality.
Thurgood Marshall
I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.
Dolly Parton
I was a super once – an extra – in ‘Die Fledermaus,’ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.
Stephen Hawking
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. Maxwell
All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
John C. Maxwell
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso
I got the stamina. I can close.
Michael Phelps
There’s a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we’re to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we’re close to the end of the age.
Billy Graham
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
Marilyn Monroe
It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Neil Armstrong
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.
Colin Powell
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov
Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.
Joel Osteen
I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don’t have to worry about anything ever again.
Tyler, The Creator
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia
Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
Kurt Cobain
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Sometimes you have to keep things very close to your own chest in your life, or this life.
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir
It wasn’t until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book artists and original artwork in real life, up close. That was when I first realized that this is what I wanted to do for a living.
George Perez
I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did ‘Fences,’ I didn’t go to rehearsals and say, ‘OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in ’87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.’
Kenny Leon
Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
Frank Robinson
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
Anita Diament