Close Quotes

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. (Sun Tzu)
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. View quote
Ronald Reagan
To draw you must close your eyes and sing. View quote
Pablo Picasso
To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two. View quote
Norman Douglas
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. View quote
Françoise Sagan
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Close your eyes and you will see. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. View quote
Germaine Greer
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. View quote
Ken Thompson
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it. (Colin Powell)
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. View quote
Mother Teresa
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. View quote
George Burns
I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all. View quote
Bobby Fischer
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. View quote
Warren Buffett
People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look and it's magic. View quote
Andy Warhol
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. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. View quote
Thomas Edison
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. (George Eliot)
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. View quote
George Carlin
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live, and I close my eyes. View quote
Paul Éluard
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. View quote
Robert Capa
And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. View quote
Alcuin