Closer Quotes - page 4

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death. (Gabriel García Márquez)
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. View quote
John Coltrane
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church. View quote
Viktor Schauberger
They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. View quote
Mario Puzo
Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'. View quote
Mark Cuban
Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work. View quote
Markus Zusak
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre. (Andrzej Wajda)
I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty. View quote
Mindy Kaling
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person. View quote
Michelle Williams
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. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him. View quote
Novak Djokovic
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. View quote
Pema Chodron
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Then something occurred to me. "Get closer," I told Blackjack. He whinnied in protest. "Just within shouting distance," I said. "I need to talk to the statue." Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, Blackjack said. View quote
Rick Riordan
Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid to come closer. "Pony? View quote
Rick Riordan
As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you. (Stephen Chbosky)
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do! View quote
Helen Fisher
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself. View quote
Holly Black
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. View quote
Shirley Hazzard