Closer Inspection Quotes

#1. Upon closer inspection I decided it was, like a lot of things, not as pretty up close as it seemed from a distance.

Ransom Riggs

#2. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal. Even those periods which we think most tranquil, like the nineteenth century, turn out, on closer inspection, to be full of crises, alarms, difficulties, emergencies.

C.S. Lewis

#3. He found an electronics store and a teahouse and what on closer inspection turned out to be a very expensive brothel.

James S.A. Corey

#4. The one in the glasses looks cute."
"He's a tool."
"But not that cute," Sally said quickly. "In fact, if you had let me finish before interrupting, you would have heard me say he looks cute, but, on closer inspection, he's obviously a tool.

Derek Landy

#5. The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

George Smoot

#6. Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#7. All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

Jean De La Bruyere

#8. Parcifal is one of those corkscrew artifact of culture in which you get the subjective sense that you've learned something from it, something valuable or even priceless; but on closer inspection you suddenly begin to scratch your head and say Wait a minute. This makes no sense.

Philip K. Dick

#9. The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage.

Irin Carmon

#10. Many times we refer to people who express hate or behave in a barbaric, savage 'inhuman' way as 'animals', but on closer inspection we can clearly see that this is in fact, an insult to animals.

Christina Engela

#11. (At an intersection on the main road from Nyon to Geneva, for instance, there is a neat villa, window-boxes and all, that reveals itself on closer inspection to be a mighty stressed-concrete pillbox.) Military

Ian Fleming

#12. It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

Anne Fadiman

#13. I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the corner of Sixteenth Street and made a closer inspection it turned out to be something called a "Gay Pride Parade," which made my stomach turn.

Bret Easton Ellis

#14. It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

#15. She kind of accidentally bumped into his chest on the way out. Well, maybe not so accidentally. She saw his muscles through his shirt
they'd just needed a closer physical inspection.

Ophelia London

#16. I don't write to a genre.

John Searles

#17. I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

Carl Yastrzemski

#18. I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

Edward Hirsch

#19. Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#20. If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.

George W. Bush

#21. Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#22. Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

Thomas Carlyle

#23. I got a lot of friends that come up off the strip for me. The same ones that'll come up off the hip for me.

Drake

#24. No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

Coco Chanel

#25. If you read on and unlock the secrets of time travel, you could be responsible for the dissolution of every puppy that ever exists - past, present and future. And we'll tell everyone it was you.

Phil Hornshaw

#26. And want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit

Daniel Kahneman

#27. Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Paul Tournier