Closest Quotes

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

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.

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.

The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

The closest I ever came to a menage-a-trois was when I dated a schizophrenic.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.

The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

You are the average of your five closest associates.

Those closest to me will determine the level of my success.

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.

And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

I never went bungee jumping. The closest I did was I was born.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent. That is probably the closest thing to the Extreme Elimination Chamber I can think of.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.