Top 100 Up Close Quotes
#1. Up close, your face wasn't so much handsome as beautiful.
Jenny Han
#2. I've seen your foot up close."
Curran pointed to his chest. "I've seen it here." He moved his hand to his jaw. "Here." He touched the place over his cheek where my kick had cut him. "And here.
Ilona Andrews
#3. On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.
Steven Cojocaru
#4. wasn't often she was up close and personal with
Soraya Lane
#5. The reality, Haung knew, would be something quite different. From a distance, civilisation looks clean and desirable. Up close, the shine is dulled by self-interest and tarnished by greed.
G.R. Matthews
#6. To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.
Gregory Benford
#7. I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
Robin Day
#8. I remember something."
"Yes?"
"You told me once that you were going to break my heart."
He rolls over to face her. "Yes," he says. "I may once have said something like that."
"What happened?"
His beautiful eyes are even more hypnotic up close.
"You broke mine.
Nenia Campbell
#9. Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.
David Sedaris
#10. We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.
Diane Ackerman
#11. I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
Anne Lamott
#12. She exuded a raw, animal magnetism that left boys like me tongue-tied, and made men ignore their wives and crowd up close.
Michael Schmicker
#13. Up close, I see that his eyes are brown. Dark, dark brown. Nearly black.
Sinful.
M. Leighton
#14. I am everything untamed and untameable! It brought Conor up close to its eye. I am this wild earth, come for you, Conor O'Malley.
Patrick Ness
#15. She'd pay good money for an up-close-and-personal tour of the tattoos that made him look like a badass biker.
Cindy Skaggs
#17. Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.
Kathy Reichs
#18. Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.
Taylor Branch
#19. Up close, she could see the sharp, cold, look that she constantly shot at Mr. Treviso, particularly when there was a break, and she was waiting to come in. It shattered illusion for Mildred. She preferred to remain at a distance, to enjoy this child as she seemed, rather than as she was.
James M. Cain
#20. When I am ill or upset he jumps up on to the bed to curl up close beside me. But if I am in bed with a hangover he will have nothing to do with me.
Tracey Emin
#21. Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close.
John Green
#22. I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.
Jenny Han
#23. I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.
George Will
#24. TV is a different animal. I belong on that little screen. The big silver screen, not so much, 'cause I've seen my face up close when it's 25-feet tall. I'm okay as long as you keep me in that little box.
Steve Harvey
#25. You know, Britney is one of those women who looks good from afar, but up close she looks far from good.
Liz Dodwell
#26. No spinning, I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.
Alexandra Bracken
#27. Honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain't that fucking attractive.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#28. The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing ... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.
William Gurnall
#29. Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
Jodi Picoult
#30. To see a thoroughbred racehorse up close is to see a supreme example of a living piece of art.-Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#31. If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
Jack Whitehall
#32. Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else ...
Shelby Foote
#34. I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
Andrew Davies
#35. It was hard to describe what she had sensed, but it had been distinct and clear, like the shape of a leafless tree against the sky, or a crow flying across a ploughed field. She hesitated to close her eyes again, for it had risen up close to her face like something appalling.
Jessica Rydill
#36. I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.
Scott Eastwood
#37. Smells like homeless man's crotch. Not that I've ever been up close and personal with a homeless man's crotch, but ...
Stacey Jay
#38. I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.
Elizabeth Warren
#39. I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.
Shereen El Feki
#40. Darkness within me rejoiced for the opportunity of seeing the bodies up close, in the state the murderer had intended them to be discovered.
Kerri Maniscalco
#41. The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.
Ugo Monye
#42. Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
Marianne Williamson
#43. I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
Todd Gitlin
#44. Sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are. People are different when you can smell them and see them up close. - Ben Starling
John Green
#45. Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.
Adam Nevill
#46. The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.
George Vecsey
#47. I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close.
Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.
Gayle Forman
#48. You can do all these kinds of things that are up close and personal, but you really have to bring your strength, and really - you have to really be committed to actually strangle the life out of somebody, to crush their larynx and just squeeze every drop of life out of them.
Quentin Tarantino
#49. His nostrils flared then,and he lifted his head."Oh,God,Princess.Your scent.As much as I would love to see you work your cunt again,up close and personal this time,I must have you,taste you.Fuck,I want to drown in you,bury my face in your pussy and lap up every drop."
~Lucian Roman
Laura Wright
#50. If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives ... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#51. When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.
Nia Vardalos
#52. Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. All they needed to do was look up close at what it was they were afraid of and they'd probably realise that it wasn't so frightening after all.
Melina Marchetta
#54. Ben sighed loudly. "Can you help Tory or not?"
Jason's cool slipped a notch. "If you don't need anything, why are you here?"
"I'm studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to observe one up close.
Kathy Reichs
#55. So that plan worked out well.'
Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens."'
All the same,' he said, 'I think the whole thing worked out rather beautifully.
Derek Landy
#56. 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
#57. Sometimes, the big picture is too big to see from up close.
H.M. Ward
#58. Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley
#59. If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.
David Chipperfield
#60. The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.
Robert Gottlieb
#61. It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances.
Ian McKellen
#62. I study my daughter's sleeping face. She curves her body the way I do when I sleep and draws her knees up close to her chest. She stretches her legs and her eyes flutter open as if to look at me, but then she closes them again. I hope she dreams in colour.
Wame Molefhe
#63. From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.
Rachel Cohn
#64. I trip off it. You know what's interesting about the makeup is when you get up close and you know he's been working on your face, and you see where the makeup starts and it stops, and how seamless it is. You could look at it for hours.
Eddie Murphy
#65. Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.
Lauren Oliver
#66. With charm you've got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face.
John Cooper Clarke
#67. Everything's uglier up close.
Not you.
John Green
#68. From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.
Tom Perrotta
#69. There's no doubt arena shows are exciting, but you don't get that up close and personal kind of vibe, and that's what rock n' roll is all about for me.
Joe Perry
#70. But I'm not pretty, not up close anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me.
John Green
#71. If you had never seen war up close, it was an easy thing to be brave and bellicose about it. But if you had, it was hard not to despair. What men could wantonly do to each other, in the name of nation or faith or ideology, was unthinkable.
Robert Masello
#72. Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.
Heather Brewer
#73. Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#74. The best way to improve perspective taking is to see users up close.
David Livermore
#75. I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
Dick Cheney
#76. Just now they kissed, with India coming up close on her toes to see if she could tell yet what there was about a kiss.
Eudora Welty
#77. Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.
Gay Hendricks
#78. I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town.
Liam Hemsworth
#79. I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'
Kaley Cuoco
#80. On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled those special scents up close on her body, except during kisses goodbye.
Mary Gaitskill
#81. It was delicious, his horror. She wanted to see it up close. She wanted to eat it.
Laura Ruby
#82. I like you, Dawn. I've seen a lot of humans, from far away and up close. I've never met one like you. I think you're the closest thing to a sunrise I'll ever see.
J.A. London
#83. I can't believe this," I muttered, cradling the skein of water up close to my chest. "Two weeks in the desert all on account of some assassin who doesn't know how to look out for snakes."
"If you hadn't killed that snake," Naji said calmly, "I would have killed you."
" Oh, shut up.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#84. It's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.
Patrick Jones
#85. God, he looked good. Up close, from a distance, it didn't matter. The boy didn't have a bad side.
Linda Kage
#86. Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close."
"Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.
Janet Evanovich
#87. I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for the Senate five years ago. I have only been there five years, but it's been enough time to know the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.
Marco Rubio
#88. Woman's shape under her midnight blue cloak. The cloak had made her invisible in the darkness, but up close he saw that she had golden blonde hair, so luminous that it glowed under the velvet hood. He found her attractive but sensed there was something strange about her, that she was
Alma Katsu
#89. When you found a woman who wanted to get up close and personal with your inner caveman on a long-term basis, you had to be her everything, because you were demanding that of her. You had to commit to becoming so attuned to every little shade and shift in her moods that she could hide nothing.
Eden Connor
#90. I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
Karl Pilkington
#91. Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.
Theodore Millon
#92. Up close, though, these warring hues were offset by the brilliant ring of gold around her pupils.
Sarah J. Maas
#93. I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
#94. In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
Caleb Deschanel
#95. I believe that Lady Gaga is like a carnival ride. From a distance she looks fun, but up close, you don't wanna climb on that.
Bill Engvall
#96. The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon
Ken Kesey
#97. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.
Charles Bukowski
#98. 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
#99. Harry, we saw Uranus up close!" said Ron, still giggling feebly. "Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus - ha ha ha -
J.K. Rowling
#100. When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
Alain Ducasse
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