Nearest Quotes

269 quotes by 229 authors

Comedians are the nearest to suicide. — Lawrence Durrell
The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to… — Alan Bennett
The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. — Maggie Smith
I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation. — Maureen Lipman
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. — James F. Byrnes
Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat… — Christopher Atkins
I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd… — Herb Alpert
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in… — Marc Andreessen
I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a… — Theo James
... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity. — Stephen Daldry
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. — Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone
You can travel with the speed of thought! You just think you're on Jupiter and you're there, boom! You just think you're on Saturn and… — David Berg
The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and… — Harold Rosenberg
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them… — John F. Carlson
I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest… — Theodore Roosevelt
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply… — Bayard Taylor
Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it… — Will Rogers

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