Top 555 Close Quotes

There’s a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we’re to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we’re close to the end of the age.
Billy Graham
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.
Kajol
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso
We are all so close. We are godfather to each others’ kids. I was the best man at Jesus’ wedding.
Juan Marichal
I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
Chuck Schumer
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Francois Mitterrand
I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan Quayle
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
James Cash Penney
What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day’s high and most likely ‘breaks’ out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
Larry Williams
I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water – and sunsets from the terrace.
Edgardo Osorio
The crown is always with me, so I keep it close.
Pia Wurtzbach
I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don’t like the book after a bit, I don’t finish it. But I like to be surprised.
Stanley Kubrick
The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don’t get scared, get ready to buy!
Larry Williams
Nike came to me and said, ‘We’re interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.’
Ashton Eaton
There are people who have energy that say ‘don’t come near me, don’t get too close.’ There’s people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of ‘come over here and give me a hug and if you’re around me you’re going to be happy about it.’
Nathan Fillion
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.
Warren Buffett
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.
Jeremy Grantham
Michael J. Fox is nice. I’m not in close contact with him.
Thomas F. Wilson
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.
Amisha Patel
If any place in America needs to close, it is Congress.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn’t personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren’t close to the Spirit.
Pope Benedict XVI
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also ‘Blade Runner.’ And ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ is also one of my favorites. I’m always looking for sci-fi material, and it’s difficult to find original and strong material that’s not just about weaponry.
Denis Villeneuve
Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love’s dysmorphic command.
Isabel Yosito
If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.
Golshifteh Farahani
I’ve got two brothers and two sisters, so there’s five of us and we’re all very close, which is cool.
Theo James
I do believe that education should become as close to free as possible.
Sal Khan
We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup.
Leonard Cohen
To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
David Small
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
Stephen Vizinczey
Braves fans are one-of-a-kind. Your passion to win comes close to equaling that of the players that go out on the field each and every game. But when the team goes through rough patches, you’re there to encourage and cheer and believe that things will turn around.
Tim Hudson
I got ‘Power’ on my own through my agent and my team. I didn’t know 50 until I got on the show. Because my character is so close to his, we spent a lot of time as friends. But even in that, I didn’t really bring up music to him because I saw how everybody else was bringing up music to him.
Rotimi
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
Joanne Harris
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appre

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean
The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn’t know who was ahead or if it was a close game.
Rob Dyrdek
I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
Jensen Ackles
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.
Jacqueline Cochran
Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.
Pliny the Elder
I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make sure that my female character is not decorative, they are human, they are good, bad, complex and close to reality.
Sriram Raghavan
I don’t even think I’ll see all of ‘The Mist’ until I’m 18. I’m going to the premiere, but I’ll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.
Nathan Gamble
I don’t know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I’m some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
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.
Tadao Ando
Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn’t happen – we were surprised.
Julia Barr
A careful examination of the information available, from previous counter-terrorism investigations, demonstrates that police have never come close to having to release any dangerous terrorist suspects as a result of time constraints.
Dominic Grieve
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
Zig Ziglar
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
I party only with my close friends in Chennai and L.A.
Shruti Haasan
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
Anne Lamott
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20’s. Then you’ll find out what your weight should be.
Jack LaLanne
I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I am very close to my family, and there’s something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you’re still family and have that immediate acceptance.
Susanne Bier
I don’t even sing in front of really close friends. It’s embarrassing. I don’t really sing when I’m alone, either. I just hum enjoyably.
Kim Woo-bin
When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
Kelly Jones
Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that’s the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.
Mario Batali
With women, I’ve got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can’t get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Marlon Brando
Since writing JAWS, I’ve been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.
Peter Benchley
If it’s far away, it’s news, but if it’s close at home, it’s sociology.
James Reston
I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.
Jake Gyllenhaal