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If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!
— K. Hari Kumar
Tell me you aren't as perfect as you seem, Alex." "Not even close to perfect." His blue-gray eyes darkened. "Not a complete asshole either.
— Toni Anderson
Hadza men were close to the average, spending more than 4 hours a day hunting - about eighty times as long as an Ngogo chimpanzee.
— Richard W. Wrangham
Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.
— Margaret Young
Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
— Al Spalding
You're the coolest thing alive," Hi breathed, as close to the bonewhite reptile as he dared. "Don't let anyone tell you different.
— Kathy Reichs
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.
— Anthony Hopkins
As I close my eyes in prayer, let me see the faces of those who need to know You, beloved Savior.
— Billy Graham
I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.
— Alyssa Brugman
I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
— Natalie Massenet
In this, with him ... I'm as close to the sky as I've ever been.
— Sophie Jordan
Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.
— Nigel Dennis
I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.
— Louise Erdrich
She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.
— Ida Hattemer-Higgins
Happiness can be as close as your next thought.
— Charles F. Glassman
Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.
— F. M. Powicke
He and his mother weren't close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone
— Rachel Caine
As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.
— Henry Cuellar
I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.
— Shehan Karunatilaka
Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.
— Elizabeth George
Connor combs my hair back and leans close to whisper, "So long as I may be living, I live with you.
— Krista Ritchie
It looks beautiful from out here, but nothing glitters quite as much when you get close up.
— Kate Alcott
For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.
— Alix Kates Shulman
I've always liked doubles. When you scald the ball on a line to the gap, I think that's about as close to a perfect swing as you can get.
— Lance Berkman
A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last as long as the bad. Not even close.
— Andre Agassi
emotional and close to tears. 'Well, I'm here, as you can see.' Maddie hated that she was so raw. Nic
— Abby Green
I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
— Damon Galgut
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
— George Burns
The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.
— Eckhart Tolle
It was hardly a Eureka moment, although possibly as close to one as I was going to get.
— T.R. Richmond
I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.
— Blanche Lincoln
The quality which gave such force to Calvin's teaching was his close adherence to the Bible as an inspired and authoritative book.
— Loraine Boettner
He was trying to pay close attention to his surroundings as a way to avert thought and anxiety.
— David Foster Wallace
Come on, Arianna," I plead as I hold her close, "come back to me.
— Brittany DeLys
Together they are a long skin interface, flowing sweat, close as muscles and bones can press, hardly a word beyond her name, or his.
— Thomas Pynchon
In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.
— D.H. Lawrence
The daughter sat down too and watched him with a cautious sly look as if he were a bird that had come up very close.
— Flannery O'Connor
I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.
— Nile Rodgers
I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band.
— Ron Livingston
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I would have to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant as close as possible to no rules at all.
— Tim Berners-Lee
I don't think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get.
— Toni Morrison
So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.
— Erykah Badu
They were as close and as distant as any family.
— Kate Tempest
Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play - work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.
— Mark Edmundson
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.
— Stanley Tucci
POINT TO PONDER: I'm as close to God as I choose to be.
— Rick Warren
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
— Albert Einstein
...mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division...
— Charles Dickens
Close counts in handguns as well, in my book," Remy argued."Your book is written in purple crayon. No one cares. — Abigail Roux
There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been able to make it.
— Kevin Brockmeier
After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.
— Frederick Lenz
You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
— Harrison Ford
Well, I just get as close as I can to a happy ending, then I shut the door behind me and move on.
— James Goss
If man sees hazard as a misfortune rather than an opportunity, he will seek to close the door to freedom rather than keep it open.
— J.G. Bennett
All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.
— Aeriel Miranda
I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
— Casey Stengel
Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.
— Nicole Trunfio
No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
— Geraldine Brooks
When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.
— Sergei Lavrov
His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
— Leonard Cohen
And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
— John Milton
...For having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.
— Erica Eisdorfer
Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him.
— Jefferson Bethke
I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
— Pastor Maldonado
Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be.
— D.R. Silva
As she walked, clock towers across Prague started arguing midnight, and the long, fraught Monday came at last to a close.
— Laini Taylor
Selling is not the same thing as talking. Listening is the most important part in any sales job to close the sale.
— Timi Nadela
Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.
— Stewart Francis
How close people could be to us when they had gone as far away as possible, to the edges of the map. How unforgettable.
— Paula McLain
It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.
— Soman Chainani
It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.
— Craig Venter
I would run to close those last few feet between us - reckless as always - and I would be in his marble arms, finally safe.
— Stephenie Meyer
