Closest Quotes

580 Closest quotes by 513 unique authors

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. — J. B. Priestley
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of… — Norman MacCaig
The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the… — Paul Mazursky
Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be,… — Laozi
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness,… — John Cheever
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took… — David Talbot
The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal… — Yulia Tymoshenko
A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that… — Criss Jami
Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set… — Criss Jami
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the… — Linda Lingle
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as… — David Riesman
Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America… — Robert MacNeil
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God… — Bob Brown
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play. — Nastassja Kinski
When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had… — Michael Symon
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This… — Alastair Campbell
Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and… — Richard V. Allen
Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the… — Christopher Bond
We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get. — Stan Brakhage
I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal. — Tom Bergeron
If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front… — Enrico Colantoni
The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death. — Duane Chapman
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy… — Sandra Cisneros
I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing… — Caitlin Flanagan
It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. — Ana Gasteyer

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