Closing Quotes - Page 2

• You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

  James Caan

  Eye, Night, Can Do

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  Gale Sayers

  School, Nfl, Trends

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• I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

  Margaret Spellings

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Running, Hunting, Woods

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.54

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• We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

  Margaret Spellings

  Relationship, Talking, Goal

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Government, Entrepreneur, Priorities

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• When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

  Toby Keith

  Doors, Dollars, Legs

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• In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Labels, Records, Rooms

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• My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Jobs, Doors, Europe

  "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Law, People, Enforcement

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• I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

  Walter Scott

  Friendship, True Friend, Clouds

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• I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

  Joseph Heller

  Writing, Lines, I Can

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Compass, Harmony

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• The power of a text when it is read is different from the power it has when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Book, Reading

  "One-Way Street".

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• I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

  Gordie Howe

  Sports, Children, Learning

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• I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

  Toni Morrison

  Book, Finishing, Wonderful

  "Toni Morrison Knows All About the 'Little Drop of Poison' in Your Childhood". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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• Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn.

  Oliver James

  Fear, Sunset, Mean

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• Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

  John Mayer

  Falling In Love, Heart, Eye

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• The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Eye

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.200, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Doors, Space, People

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• I saw something in the store the other day that I don't understand: that peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. Is there a point to that? I mean, I'm lazy-but I wanna meet the guy who needs that. Some guy going, "You know, I could go for a sandwich-but, uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. Cleaning, who knows how many knives!?"

  Brian Regan

  Funny, Mean, Knives

  "Brian Regan Live". Audio CD, 1997.

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• The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.

  Tim McCarthy

  Eye, Thinking, Literature

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• If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

  Ted Cruz

  Government, Obamacare, Assets

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.

  John Hodgman

  Song, Ukulele, Humanity

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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