Close Quotes - page 8

Surely, no one hoped for so many things. Hold the flowers close to your heart; they may someday bloom. (Ayumi Hamasaki)
I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them. View quote
Thom Yorke
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. View quote
Dylan Thomas
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it. View quote
Henry Fonda
Anyone who wants to understand human nature, the interaction between brain and culture, between evolution and society, has to take a close look at the role that music has held in the lives of humans. View quote
Daniel Levitin
The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will.Washington still hasn't learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept. View quote
Paul Craig Roberts
Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast. View quote
Robert Graves
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. View quote
Cesare Pavese
In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I'd be damned in hell for all eternity[...]it didn't take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong [...]I didn't cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart. View quote
Willie Nelson
There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity. (Timothy Leary)
The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear. View quote
Jan Smuts
I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like, but I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose. View quote
John Mayer
God put us here on this carnival ride, we close our eyes never knowing where it will take us next. View quote
Carrie Underwood
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I try to have a real close connection with my fans. That's extremely important. They are the ones that have been there from the beginning and proved everyone else wrong. View quote
Josh Groban
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning. (Devendra Banhart)
My derring-do allows me to Dance the rigadoon around you. But by the time I'm close to you, I lose my desideratum and now you. View quote
Fiona Apple
The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free. View quote
Willa Cather
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. View quote
Willa Cather
A fly was very close to being called a "land," cause that's what they do half the time. View quote
Mitch Hedberg