Close Quotes

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

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

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.