Top 100 Closest Quotes
#1. To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.
Kate Arrington
#2. Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#3. We are closest to Christ when sharing the world's misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#4. The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper rapids of the Niagara river.
Joan Lingard
#5. 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
Barbara Cooney
#6. One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.
Fay Weldon
#7. The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.
Siri Hustvedt
#8. We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.
Walter Benjamin
#9. I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent. That is probably the closest thing to the Extreme Elimination Chamber I can think of.
CM Punk
#10. Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.
Travis Bradberry
#11. You don't love anyone either. An argument could be made that you only ever do one of three things to the people closest to you: make enemies of them, kill the people they love, or get them killed. Careful. You're on thinner ice than you've ever been with me.
Karen Marie Moning
#12. AWESOMENESS is the closest you're gonna get to heaven while you're here on earth.
Tanya Masse
#13. Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion
Mindy Kaling
#14. The people you are closest to tend to be able to hurt you the most - that is why heartbreak is so hard to deal with, why death is so painful, and why fights can destroy things that matter.
Megan Wilson
#15. I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
Aaron Paul
#16. Coup d'Oeil Concept A French expression which loosely translated means the "strike of the eye" or the "vision behind the eye." The closest English concept would be that of intuition. Intuition is defined as "perceptive insight" or "the power to discern the true nature of a situation.
Charles "Sid" Heal
#17. I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.
Tom Bergeron
#18. So then she took me home, or I took her home, or we were both somehow taken to the closest thing.
Emma Donoghue
#19. Meditate?" I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. "Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once.
Rachel Caine
#20. At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George Carlin
#21. Unlike her closest primate cousins, the standard human female doesn't come equipped with private parts that swell up to double their normal size and turn bright red when she is about to ovulate. In
Christopher Ryan
#23. People didn't fight for grand causes or great purposes, but for the closest and most personal of reasons. They might say the fought for high ideals, but in practice they fought for the comrades beside them and their loved ones at home.
Jack Campbell
#24. My eyes stung as they always did whenever I saw Cary happy. Dr. Travis was the closest thing to a father that he had and I knew how much Cary loved him.
Sylvia Day
#25. I wasn't sure I wanted a love interest for Alexander. The thought of being jealous of a character in a book was silly, but I couldn't help it. Alexander Banks was the closest to perfection
that any guy could ever be.
Allison Van Diepen
#26. Every society has its own problems," Morrie said, lifting his eyebrows, the closest he could come to a shrug. "The way to do it, I think, isn't to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.
Mitch Albom
#27. I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved.
Bryan Burrough
#28. As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
Oswald Chambers
#29. The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
Cormac McCarthy
#30. Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?
Robert MacNeil
#31. Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.
Chris Hardwick
#32. It is not possible to express the most precious insights,
To see all that craves to be seen,
To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe,
To learn all that needs to be learned,
To live without dying,
And I am sad about it.
But I lived
And I am happy about that.
Dejan Stojanovic
#33. Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.
Tom Colicchio
#34. I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.
Aaron Schock
#35. the closest man can come to the feeling of eternity is by living in the present
Paul Auster
#36. All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
Claire Tomalin
#37. I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.
Alec Soth
#38. While the two of them might never be the closest of friends, they had developed a connection that was important for each of them. When they'd needed someone, they'd found one another.
Lurlene McDaniel
#39. It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends.
Gia Coppola
#40. I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
Salman Rushdie
#41. I like getting my feet massaged; I'll get whoever's closest to do it.
Liam Hemsworth
#42. When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object ... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.
Georges Braque
#43. Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither of us knows. The marriage is androgynous
like the closest friendships. It will keep.
Erica Jong
#44. Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.
Rebecca Solnit
#45. Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage are the most fun to do, because they're both probably the closest to me - I kinda improvise a lot of them, kinda ad lib.
Jim Cummings
#46. That's my problem.
I go these long periods without sex, and then at some point, I just crack; I break down and try to hump the closest swinging penis.
Natalie E. Wrye
#47. Love, alone, will not bring happiness in marriage, nor will sex alone. When these two beautiful emotions are blended, marriage may bring about a state of mind, closest to the spiritual that one may ever know on this earthly plane.
Napoleon Hill
#48. I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
Imogen Poots
#49. A wiry crewman named Kobis sat at the end of a couch, reading a book in the low light, clearly relishing the closest thing he ever found to peace and quiet
V.E Schwab
#50. I think the closest any of us may come to lasting happiness is in seeing to the needs of others; I think the same may be true for those who go in sunlight, though their lives are so short that many will not discover this in time.
Christopher Buehlman
#51. To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.
David
#52. You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.
Dominic Cooper
#54. If a man of real sensitivity and correct reasoning feels concerned about the evil and injustice of the world, he naturally seeks to correct it first where it manifests itself closest to home and that, he will find, is in his own being. This task will take him his whole lifetime.
Pessoa, Fernando
#55. In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction.
Laila Lalami
#56. Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
Roger Ebert
#57. Your closest and your most dedicated fans will be your ultimate test. They will test you.
Chuck D
#58. I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.
Misty Copeland
#59. I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.
Anne Sexton
#60. It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
Amartya Sen
#61. The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.
Michael J. Cohen
#62. If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach ...
Aaron Copland
#63. Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.
Mark Rubinstein
#64. I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.
Kanye West
#65. You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.
Jude Watson
#66. Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
E. E. Cummings
#67. Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2
James MacDonald
#68. Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
Wes Nisker
#69. We hear many offers from the world around us; but let us take up God's offer instead: his is a caress of love. For God, we are not numbers, we are important, indeed we are the most important thing to him; even if we are sinners, we are what is closest to his heart.
Pope Francis
#70. Those who have found God in the cross of Jesus Christ know how wonderfully God hides himself in this world and how he is closest precisely when we believe him to be most distant.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#71. I read the bible every day and the one thing I have noticed is that those characters that are closest to God seem to be the ones who question and wonder and think more than others.
J.W. Lord
#72. People love to talk
especially when the talking involves answering the questions of others
because it makes them feel wanted. [ ... ] I had long ago discovered that the best way to obtain answers about anything was to walk up to the closest person and ask.
Alan Bradley
#73. Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Edwin Louis Cole
#74. Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
Arthur Helps
#75. The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
Duane Chapman
#76. What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.
Alice Hoffman
#77. I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.
Craig Venter
#78. There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.
John Roberts
#79. It's more for me peace of mind, lass. Because you are me heart."
I was stunned. It was the closest thing Howel had come to telling me he loved me. You are me heart.
Rima Jean
#80. The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge -- simple family affairs, just Freya and Mama and Papa and about seventy servants and courtiers
Philip Reeve
#81. Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. It's the closest I've ever felt to dying.
Susan Oakey-Baker
#82. And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#83. It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello ... there are endless possibilities.
Stjepan Hauser
#84. It's the closest place to Exeter they could have chosen," Alan said. "We can pick up Mae and Jamie on the way."
Nick rolled his eyes. "Thrill me, why don't you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#85. Mum's mobile was the most immoblie cell phone in the world. It often lived on the top of the bookshelf closest to the front door. It was there so she'd see it before she left the house. The trouble was, Mum was alwayd leaving the house in a mad rush and the mobile stayed put.
Catherine Bateson
#86. We sit in silence and watch the stars, I suppose because there are no words, not in all the languages on earth, that can properly describe the feeling of being in love. And perhaps those little burning lights out there in the dark, are the closest we come to something that does.
Beau Taplin
#87. I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.
Christopher Lee
#88. The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.
Deborah Kerr
#89. When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here' ... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.
Moby
#90. We do not look on death the way you do, farang. My closest colleagues grasp my arm and one or two embrace me. No one says sorry. Would you be sorry for a sunset?
John Burdett
#91. Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.
Seth
#92. It's the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.
Ally Carter
#93. Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
Clay Shirky
#94. The deaths - tiny ones, false ones, real ones - we undertake in the name of love are the closest that we ever come to greatness.
Amanda Lee Koe
#95. Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.
Charles Simonyi
#96. Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...
Salman Rushdie
#97. If Prophets and Messengers are the closest to godliness as any human is capable of being, and yet even they fail, how the fuck can anyone, less than perfect, be so arrogant as to expect they will do better than a Prophet, or Messenger of G-D.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#98. Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.
Norman Mailer
#99. The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.
Anne Roe
#100. I'll give you a theory: Man's closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.
Garth Stein
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