Closely Quotes

733 Closely quotes by 620 unique authors

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more… — E. O. Wilson
I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless… — Jennifer Egan
Tell her I am Peace Dawg but I think her cats are closely allied with The Man. I'm going to stick it to them. — Kevin Hearne
I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The… — Suzanne Collins
An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together… — Nikki Gemmell
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look… — Jeanette Winterson
The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this… — Tatiana de Rosnay
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different… — Robert Anton Wilson
Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and… — Lauren Oliver
It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were… — Melissa de la Cruz
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot.… — John Green
Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely… — Edsger Dijkstra
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if… — Malcolm X
I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin… — Andrei Tarkovsky
You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I… — Margaret Weis
The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough. — Christopher Paolini
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly… — Aldous Huxley
That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,… — Walter Mosley
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. — Graham Greene
Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way. — Lady Gaga
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of… — Ron Paul
I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again?" "Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned. "What’s the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely. "What… — Kami Garcia
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table,… — Jodi Picoult
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that… — R.K. Narayan
Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley… — Ridley Pearson

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