Nearest Thing Quotes
- The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece… — Ross Macpherson Smith
- The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life. — Eric Hoffer
- He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him. — John McGraw
- Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God. — Laurence Olivier
- Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. — William Faulkner
- No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life… — Ronald Reagan
- I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to… — Zora Neale Hurston
- Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. — Fred G. Gosman
- I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had. — Irene Rosenfeld