Closer Quotes

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

We're getting closer to our nature.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.