Near Quotes

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.