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Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up. — Rachel Naomi Remen
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and… — William Shakespeare
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is… — John Dryden
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with… — Homer
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married. — Ed McMahon
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or… — William Cowper
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We will learn that computers, amazing as they are, still cannot come close to being as effective as human beings. A computer isn't creative on… — Masaru Ibuka
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and… — Joseph de Maistre
The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of… — Gerald Caiafa
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a… — Terence Fisher
I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California… — Douglass North
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who… — Francois Mitterrand
I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's… — Jon Crosby
I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the… — Rex Hunt
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come… — Stanley Schmidt
I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too. — Sally Kellerman
I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had… — Boris Kodjoe

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