Close Quotes

I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.

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.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

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.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.

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

I just wanted to keep the game close until we scored some runs.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

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.

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

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

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.

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.

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.