The Closer Quotes

#1. They were people who had no doubt whatsoever that the more narrow-minded they became, the closer they got to heaven.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.

Bob Proctor

#3. Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

Dexter Filkins

#4. The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

Teresa Of Avila

#5. The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#6. The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.

Morrissey

#7. For Snapchat, the closer we can get to 'I want to talk to you' - that emotion of wanting to see you and then seeing you - the better and better our product and our view of the world will be.

Evan Spiegel

#8. The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.

Tony Bennett

#10. The further your job is from the money, the closer you are to the bullshit.

Tim Heaton

#11. Her stomach looped into a series of reef knots, each growing tighter the closer her steps carried her into the center of town.

Tracey Alvarez

#12. Light, more light!"
But the closer the priest came to his goal, the less man there was in him, the more beast.

Sjon

#13. The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

James Gray

#14. How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

Stephen King

#15. Obviously, the closer you get to that moment, the more you start to realize 'this is the last year of my contract.'

Johnathan Joseph

#16. The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Nelson Algren

#17. I'm from Texas ... the bigger the hair, the closer to God!

Lilly Ghalichi

#18. The world is a terrible place for sensitive people but the closer we come to losing our minds, the harder we'll work to keep them.

Kate Tempest

#19. The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Montgomery Clift

#20. The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.

Billy Graham

#21. I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

Peter Capaldi

#22. The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance.

Penelope Douglas

#23. The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Irene Joliot-Curie

#24. Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

Beth Moore

#25. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we come to spiritual experience.

Paulo Coelho

#26. We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#27. Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#28. And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

Gregory David Roberts

#29. The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.

Lawrence Hargrave

#30. The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

Daniel Ionson

#31. I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.

Dat Phan

#32. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. And the closer you will be to your Soulmate.

Paulo Coelho

#33. I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.

Nelson Algren

#34. I do believe that everything can look beautiful if you look at it from outside. The closer you zoom in, most of us exhibit behaviour that is strange to someone from outside.

Susanne Wuest

#35. Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

Eckhart Tolle

#36. The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

Mikhail Tal

#37. I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

John Benjamin Hickey

#38. The more she went on to forget love, the closer she went on to become it.

Robert M. Drake

#39. But if I told Harvey that, there would be no more secrets and he would move in even closer. And that couldn't happen. The closer he got, the more answers I owed him.

Julie Murphy

#40. It always seemed the thicker the insults were, the closer we got.

A.L. Jackson

#41. Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years.

Anthony Marra

#42. We are like the watermelons. Each of us has a crusty external rind. A case that both protects us and keeps others out. The closer you get to the middle, that is to say - the closer you get to the heart - the sweeter we get.

Omid Safi

#43. The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

David Halberstam

#44. Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. Pa?

Joyce Carol Oates

#45. The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

John Lasseter

#46. The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear

Fraser Young

#47. The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature.

Ellen G. White

#48. Someone once asked me if I had a favorite distance. My answer was easy: the closer the better.

Chris Kyle

#49. The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people.

Adolf Hitler

#50. The closer I watch politics the more it looks like professional wrestling in business suits.

Bosley Gravel

#51. But the closer I got to my own marriage and maternity, the more I felt like I was only as praiseworthy as my healthy womb. Why was I the only one who seemed to see it this way?

Megan McCafferty

#52. The further you are in the wilderness, the closer the Promised Land is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#53. It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

Al McGuire

#54. Anointing does not come without prayer. The closer you are to Jesus in prayer, in the Word and in fellowship with Him, the greater His character, His anointing and His abilities will be manifested in you

Sunday Adelaja

#55. And for you kids watching at home, remember, the less homework you do and the closer you sit to the TV, the more points you get.

Drew Carey

#56. I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

Bruce Gilden

#57. The bigger the hair the closer to God was not just a saying in the northern panhandle, it was like the eleventh commandment: Thou shalt have big hair.

Rachel Gibson

#58. And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#59. The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.

Jerzy Kukuczka

#60. The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

Pope Benedict XVI

#61. The closer you look, the more you see.

Aaron Hartzler

#62. I don't care about the fact that a dogs place is not in a bed - the closer they are to me, the more beautiful it is.

Bill Kaulitz

#63. Deserve your distrust, but can't you accept I want to help you? Haven't I given you proof?" "The more proof you show me, the closer I have to inspect the fine print." Rook had proven to me where his loyalties lay.

Hailey Edwards

#64. It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

Alberto Giacometti

#65. Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

Michael Lewis

#66. The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem - which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel.

Elliott Abrams

#67. The closer you penetrated to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#68. The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.

Frank Zappa

#69. The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Laura Miller

#70. We have to understand that the closer you get to the corridors of power, to the Oval Office and Congress, the more you become a prisoner of the past .The closer you get to the marginalized, the grassroots and the groundlings, the greater your incentive to think imaginatively and 'outside the box.

Team Colors Collective

#71. Prolonging death was akin to prolonging an orgasm. The closer you could bring the victim to the finish line without crossing it, the better it

Seth Grahame-Smith

#72. The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

Martin Luther

#73. The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

Stephen Jay Gould

#74. Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

Bernard Berenson

#75. The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

Howard Coble

#76. That's the thing about technology, the closer you think it brings you, the further it pulls you apart.

Durjoy Datta

#77. The higher the hair, the closer to god.

Chris Colfer

#78. The closer we are to God, the more the slightest sin will cause us deep sorrow.

R.C. Sproul

#79. The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

Jerry Seinfeld

#80. And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cliffs of suicide, joyfully turns back to that summer, content to stay there forever.

Franz Kafka

#81. There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.

James Hunt

#82. The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.

Ibn Taymiyyah

#83. In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.

Curt Sachs

#84. The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Desiderius Erasmus

#85. The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

Gustave Flaubert

#86. The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

Jennifer Lynch

#87. The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.

Vironika Tugaleva

#88. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

Milan Kundera

#89. The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Karl Kraus

#90. You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

Masashi Kishimoto

#91. Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#92. The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#93. When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

Yayoi Kusama

#94. I guess this thing we call faith is a climb. I always wanted to think of it as a big slide straight into the arms of God who waits at the bottom to catch us. But instead, He's a God who's on top of things - & like any mountain you climb, the closer we get to Him, the steeper the terrain.

Lisa Samson

#95. I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.

Jenny Saville

#96. I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

Maya Angelou

#97. Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

Susan Barker

#98. The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

David Luiz

#99. All who in this world render true service to God or man receive a preparatory training in the school of sorrow. The weightier the trust and the higher the service, the closer is the test and the more severe the discipline.

Ellen G. White

#100. The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.

Jeffrey Gitomer