Closest Quotes - Page 7

• My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, Athlete, Successful

  8 Copy quote

• It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

  Edmund Burke

  Communication, Wish, Attention

  Edmund Burke (2013). “A Letter to a Noble Lord and Other Writings”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Merit, Clarity

  "The Elements of Style". Book by E. B. White, Ch. V: An Approach to Style, 1959.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I found myself with a wife and kids, and some of my friends weren't around as much. They weren't calling as much, and I didn't quite know what it was. Someone said, "Yeah, I recently lost one of my closest friends. He got his finger stuck in a wedding ring." And I thought, "Oh, that's what's happening! We're all going off and making our own families."

  Scott Foley

  Kids, Lost Ones, Wife

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.

  Barack Obama

  Kindness, Mistake, Joy

  Eulogy for Ted Kennedy, delivered 29 August 2009

  317 Copy quote

  Show source

• The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heart, My Heart, I Can

  4 Copy quote

• I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).

  Ernst Haeckel

  Views, Law, Opposites

  7 Copy quote

• Life is not a problem - Life is the closest God has yet come to a solution.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Problem, Life Is, Solutions

  4 Copy quote

• Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Song, Writing, Men

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Clear Goals, Numbers, Creative

  4 Copy quote

• But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Careers, Watches, Would Be

  "Exclusive: TRON: LEGACY Director Joseph Kosinski on Easter Eggs, Secret Cameos, IMAX, Daft Punk B-Sides, Reshoots, and so Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 23, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.

  Aisha Tyler

  Dad, Teenager, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me 'Submarine', is probably one of the most important things I've done and it will always remain the closest thing to my heart. It was an amazing experience and it really changed things for me after I'd finished filming it because of the people on it.

  Yasmin Paige

  Heart, People, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

  Neil Armstrong

  Bird, Flying, Sailing

  17 Copy quote

• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  Halle Berry

  Character, Self, People

  7 Copy quote

• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

  Karl Barth

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "The Harper Book of Quotations". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

  Alan Ball

  Stories, Storytelling, Process

  4 Copy quote

• There's not one way to direct a film, there are so many different ways to do it. Everything affects the way it turns out in the end. Even the smallest things. You don't want to really acknowledge that, because you want to believe that you are the only creative asset as a director. You want to believe you're the only one. But I really feel that everyone teams up and everybody really affects everything. Actually, it's the closest I will get to playing in a band.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Team, Believe, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Hurt, Want, Causes

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.

  Robby Krieger

  Sports, Art, Genius

  6 Copy quote

• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Relationship, Friends, Marriage

  92 Copy quote

• Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.

  Andy Stanley

  Team, Leader, Secret

  4 Copy quote

• The closest I've ever come to saying "no" is "Not now, we're landing."

  Sam Malone

  Saying No, Landing

  6 Copy quote

• Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

  Caryl Rivers

  Smell, Machines, Time Machine

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.

  Walter Cunningham

  Data, Trying, Earth

  "Politics Outweigh Science In Global Warming Debate". www.heartland.org. June 5, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source