We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.
I continue to stay close to Kellan Lutz and in touch with him. Because [the cast members of Twilight] have become so close.
There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.
The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.
Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.
If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.
Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.
The danger of having too close deadlines. . . It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.
A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea
I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.
It's hard to look at things that are too close.
Stay close to the young. . . and a little rubs off.
Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top
Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.
When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.
One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love
Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer.