The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
Cleveland Abbe

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
Jack Kevorkian

I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time.
Tyra Banks

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan Quayle

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Neil Armstrong

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Sylvia Plath

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
Lawrence Halprin

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
Marilyn vos Savant

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
Marilyn Manson

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
Dorothy Day

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Neil Young

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
Cat Stevens

I've never heard of any president being so close to his people.
Ho Chi Minh

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
Toni Morrison

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
Douglas Bader

The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore