Close Quotes

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy.So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

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.