Top 100 Close As Sayings
#1. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse.
Robert Smith
#2. Shooting her as close as Aodhan ever came to a glare, he said, "Illium is a bad influence on you." "Way I hear it, he's been a bad influence on you since you were tiny tots.
Nalini Singh
#3. Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.
Dino Buzzati
#4. It was about as close as you could get to the platonic ideal of a ham, if Plato had spent more time discussing hams and less time mucking about with triangles.
Gideon Defoe
#5. We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.
Gina Barreca
#6. I would actually love to fly. I think that that would be probably the most exhilarating feeling, and as close as you can get to true freedom.
Ali Larter
#7. [Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people?
Augusten Burroughs
#8. The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it's probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird
Gerry Lopez
#9. 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
#10. When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you.
Nicole Krauss
#11. Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ...
Damien Hirst
#12. You sound like - " "A writer?" "I was going to say lunatic, but writer's fairly close." "As
Kristen Heitzmann
#13. I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.
Adam Rapp
#14. It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love.
Jill Ciment
#15. Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
Sylvester Stallone
#16. Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.
Julia Barr
#17. The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.
Krista Tippett
#18. There's a Chinese principle called yuanfen, which means your fate with someone else [...] Two people with strong yuanfen have a greater chance of meeting in their lifetimes, and can become as close as family.
Stacey Lee
#19. Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.
Steve Carell
#20. He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.
Stephen King
#21. For those of you that never saw the Small Faces live, this is as close as you're gonna get
Stan Lane
#22. We both just stood there. I let the breeze brush against my skin, the sun release the tension in my muscles. It was as close as I had felt to God in a long time. "It's like we're praying," Celeste whispered. "Only we're not saying anything.
Nancy Rue
#23. He stepped aside, allowing me back into the hallway. As we headed to another elevator, he was glued to my hip. As close as you're riding me, man, I feel like I need to take you out to dinner or something. At least I should get your name.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#24. Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
Howard Nemerov
#25. When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that's too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.
Pete Wentz
#26. Maybe there weren't fairytales, or dreams didn't often really come true, but this moment felt very close. As close as it gets to perfect in an imperfect world.
Lee Woodruff
#27. The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.
Julian Barnes
#28. I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.
Dennis Quaid
#29. Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [ ... ] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#30. I'll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years.
Adam Silvera
#31. It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.
Penelope Cruz
#32. Miracle I have just listened to this symphony which Mozart dashed off in one day and it had enough wild and crazy joy to last forever, whatever forever is Mozart came as close as possible to that.
Charles Bukowski
#33. Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.
Amanda Schull
#34. Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with Mr Darcy. Hunt down bad guys with Stephanie Plum. Amazing things can happen when you read.
Ally Carter
#35. I say vague things because that's as close as I can get to stopping myself from saying anything, my mind addled by the feeling of her body through her shirt.
Veronica Roth
#36. I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
Ellen Burstyn
#37. When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.
Deborah Blumenthal
#38. No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.
Haruki Murakami
#39. Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.
Stewart Francis
#40. The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#41. We were as close as two people could be, or so I thought, but Wheaton had secrets
his own treasures. Perhaps if I'd paid closer attention, I wouldn't have lost him.
Michele Young-Stone
#42. A lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.
Agatha Christie
#43. There was a strange doubling, brother for brother, Laurent close as Auguste has been, and Damen even less defended, Laurent's fingers on te place where he had been run through.
C.S. Pacat
#44. It's easy for men to be friends as close as brothers when they're poor and struggling, but much harder when things are going well. Friends are never as close as blood. Remember that, Rat.
Ken Liu
#45. As close as you're riding me, man, I feel like I need to take you out to dinner or something. At least, I should get your name." He punched in a floor number, smirking.
"People call me Archer.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#46. and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. No one that close to me has ever died, much less someone as close as one of my sisters. A twin sister to be exact.
Colleen Hoover
#47. I had wanted all of her just a moment ago, to consume her and to have her consume me in turn, and when we were fucking, sometimes it felt as if it would never be enough, as if I could never fuck hard enough to get as close as I needed.
Sierra Simone
#48. I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.
Peter Coyote
#49. 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
#50. Jesus, on the other hand, was America. He was the central figure in America's national drama. Accepting him into my heart was as close as I could get to feeling truly American.
Reza Aslan
#51. Glory had her tail curled around her talons and was holding her wings in close as wave after wave of odd colors spread through her scales. Deathbringer put one wing around her, gently, and she let him.
Tui T. Sutherland
#52. Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.
Bruce Mau
#53. The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.
Sarah Addison Allen
#54. People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get.
Carla H. Krueger
#55. I am doing the best I can. I am hoping I am good enough. I am holding you close, as close as I can, hand cradling your head and breath on your hair, my whole body curved around yours, sheltering you as best I can, trying to remember that I cannot keep you safe, but I can keep you loved.
S. Bear Bergman
#56. The thing about having friends who are as close as blood, as true as your own heart, as the twins had been to her, is you don't bother much with other people. And if you have the misfortune to get left behind, well, you've made yourself a lonely nest to live in.
Laini Taylor
#57. Bruised, she spent the night with him; bruised, too, he held her as close as he could. It was all done, promised, and decided on.
Henry H. Roth
#58. As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.
Scott Cohen
#59. Skyscrapers! Unhealthy ugly giants! To live and work as close as to the land is a blessing! Remember, you are not a cloud! Come down and live on the ground!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.
Samantha Hunt
#61. Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.
Jerry Stahl
#62. I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.
Tim Conway
#63. The corners of Cooper's mouth tucked in, which is as close as he gets to a smile. He said, "Do come in.
Tana French
#64. Together they sank onto the mattress, lying face-to-face. The bed was too narrow for two, but Alan would've been entwined as close as possible with her even if they were lying in his parents' huge tester bed, the one his Dutch grandfather, a wealthy merchant, had brought over from Amsterdam.
Bonnie Dee
#65. I stick to Raffe as close as I can manage without having to explain why I'm hugging his back.
Susan Ee
#66. The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.
The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.
Toba Beta
#67. I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
Christoph Waltz
#68. Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.
Don Bluth
#69. Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.
Dr. Seuss
#71. Umm, well do I have to tell you how it's done?" I tease, as I get on my knees and lean over him, . A wide smile spreads over his face as I straddle his lap.
"Oh, are you taking dominance? I think I like that." He grips his hands on my hips, pulling me as close as he can get.
Annie Brewer
#72. This is as close as I've ever heard to a Thomas and Carmel argument. And as special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness, I'm starting to get the urge to go back to class.
Kendare Blake
#73. Because that's what the Brotherhood and their families were. Close as siblings, tighter than blood because they were chosen.
J.R. Ward
#74. No time ago
or else a life
walking in the dark
i met christ
jesus)my heart
flopped over
and lay still
while he passed(as
close as i'm to you
yes closer
made of nothing
except loneliness.
E. E. Cummings
#75. Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.
Ryan Sypek
#76. You don't need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
Harvey MacKay
#77. Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,
Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.
Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.
Elizabeth Bishop
#78. But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.
Gayle Forman
#79. Grace is that ability; to face adversity and be at ease, to enter into the suffering world and help others without losing yourself in the process. It is to be true to your most essential nature, and produce something good from that. To have grace is as close as we may come to perfection.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#80. I hold him as close as I dare. Even if my entire life goes to shit before breakfast tomorrow, I'll always have this night.
Sarina Bowen
#81. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#82. Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
Ann Brashares
#83. I would be able to feel his heart from across a room, see his eyes and hear his voice, but feeling him as close as I needed, in the unbound intimacy of simple comfort, was something I was scared to lose.
Vee Hoffman
#84. Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.
Gina Barreca
#85. Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#86. Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.
Jim Carrey
#87. For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form ... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
Ansel Adams
#88. I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
Henry R. Luce
#89. Beth's fingers trembled in his hair, and her forehead dropped against his. A heavy, wet tear fell onto Lincoln's lips, and he licked it. He pulled her close, as close as he could. Like he didn't care for the moment whether she could breathe. Like there were two of them and only one parachute.
Rainbow Rowell
#90. I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it's a safe bet for the future.
Marc Jacobs
#91. Water walks with the moon and embraces the earth, and it isn't afraid to die in fire or live in air. When you step into it, it will be as close as your own skin, but if you hit it too hard, it will shatter you .
Emmi Itaranta
#92. You have been with me, as close as the tips of my fingers, even when we were years and seas apart. Your being was like the hum of a plucked string at the edge of my hearing, or a scent carried on a breeze. Did not you feel it so?
Robin Hobb
#94. If breath is as close as I can get,
tomorrow, I'll become the wind
just to be with you again.
Frederick Espiritu
#95. I accept that he has a past. I wasn't a saint before we met." She slid me a glance. "I wasn't." "You were a nerdy English lit student; you were as close as it gets without beatification.
Chloe Neill
#96. Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
Plato
#97. We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).
Alain De Botton
#98. We fall asleep as close as ears of wheat: chest to back, fingers entwined. I kiss the skin at the nape of her neck, soft like rabbit fur. I dream of nothing.
Kirsty Logan
#99. Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001.
Paul Cellucci
#100. Where we got to know eachother. Not just with words, it was how we observed eachother's movements. The way your smile only effected the lower half of your face. How our hands moved when they were close: as if they had minds of their own.
Elaine Turnbo
