Closest Quotes

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.

It’s ironic that as scientists that don’t believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

Blay was the closest thing to an angel Qhuinn had ever come near.

And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.

I was in Rent, for Gods sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.

To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.

The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.

When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.

I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find!

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.