Top 555 Close Quotes

I’ve played basketball, and I’ve stood at the free-throw line with a tie game and 0.2 seconds left. But there is no feeling in the world like being in that ring when they close it up and ask, ‘Are you ready?’

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.

Anytime you really take a close look at people who are dealing with the aging process, you’re going to have a complicated reaction to what you’re seeing and feeling. If you’re in the middle of it, those emotions are going to be quadrupled. It’s immediate, it’s relatable, so it’s good human drama.

But thanks to the International Space Station, we’re able to study the effects of weightlessness and develop countermeasures in orbit, close to Earth.

I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.

Let’s close all the Islamist mosques.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we’ve just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We’re artificially divided. I think we’re closer than we think we are.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we’re from North England.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I’m simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that’s a vulnerable moment in every actor’s life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I don’t think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

I’ve worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there’s no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?

The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet.

I was totally ignored for a while… that’s a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don’t have any time for you.

Although I am not Jewish, I have been to many Friday night Shabbats at my friends houses, and I absolutely love it. It’s a great and inspiring tradition to keep the family close.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I’d do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I’d pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I’d scream, ‘Ow, ow, put it back!’

When we look at Huawei and ZTE, there are significant indicators that – because of Huawei’s close relationship with the Chinese military and Chinese intelligence, the use of Huawei technologies could create backdoors for areas of access to consumer data or company data that we would find unacceptable.

‘The End of America’ details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

A man’s illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It’s like getting a greeting card every single day.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix’s character, but I play Joaquin’s close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don’t die.

To be quite honest, I’ve been very blessed when I’ve worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits. I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.

I wasn’t close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time – good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

The Boss doesn’t need friends, but the ones I do have, I keep very close.

No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

Any time you’re near a kangaroo, it’s a close call.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

I’m really, really close with Kevin Owens. We talk practically every day. He was a guy who really, really helped me, both in Ring Of Honor and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.

We are at the edge of an abyss and we’re close to being irrevocably lost.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

If the job of capitalism is to create wealth for those who put up the capital, no fund group comes close to Vanguard’s success in serving its owners. So we’re probably as far away from communism as is realistically possible.

I brought hurdles, all ten of them, to the beach and had my hurdling sessions very close to the water. Those days, I trained on the beach for nearly three months every season with coach Nambiar. I used to run into the water, almost chasing the receding waves, and that was how I built up strength.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don’t know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us – but is living close to us.

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts – we have learned only recently how close we were to war – but I knew enough to make me tremble.

As the writer, you’re always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you’re writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you’ve also nailed yourself.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

There’s something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.

Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibly imagine. Keep in mind, I am an only child, so I was always fiercely close with both my parents. The tragedy my father and I endured when my mother passed created a bond between us that no amount of force can break.

When you see Zlatan up close, he’s even more imposing than on the television. Zlatan is very, very big, very strong, and his control of the ball is incredible. It can seem like he’s not there, and then he goes and scores the decisive goal.