Closely Quotes

733 Closely quotes by 620 unique authors

A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight. — Kay Ryan
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will… — Bertrand Russell
The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded, — Trenton Lee Stewart
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. — Jeffrey Eugenides
It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I… — James Patterson
So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean.… — Orson Scott Card
I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that… — Sylvia Plath
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken,… — David Allen
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those… — Lydia Millet
Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and… — Cecelia Ahern
Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went… — Alice Sebold
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Captain looks at Janie closely. "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph," she says. "You're gonna have a heck of a shiner by the time the day's over.… — Lisa McMann
If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense. — Sue Grafton
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in… — Colum McCann
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand. — Beryl Markham
Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency… — Mary Roach
I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am… — Tite Kubo
The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep… — Paramahansa Yogananda
She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut… — Scott Westerfeld
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end… — Edwidge Danticat
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing… — Jodi Picoult
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author.… — Po Bronson
It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our… — Alain de Botton

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