Close Quotes - page 2

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. (Henry Miller)
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. View quote
Willa Cather
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. View quote
John Muir
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Good music is very close to primitive language. View quote
Denis Diderot
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. View quote
Stendhal
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
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. (Charles Dickens)
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. View quote
Antonio Porchia
We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming. View quote
Novalis
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together. View quote
Federico Fellini
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. View quote
Sarah Zettel
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. View quote
Tadao Ando
You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary. View quote
Tyler Joseph
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. View quote
David Trimble
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. View quote
Amy Bloom
There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry. View quote
Curtis Stone
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana. (Lana Turner)
The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. View quote
Sidney Sheldon
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. View quote
James K. Polk
More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone. View quote
James Frey