#close

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#close #door #drafts #either #ever

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#become #cannot #close #exercise #governments

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#closest #death #few #few men #live

It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise. ↗

— David Talbot

#closely #curtains #daily #everyday #i

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#came #closely #electronics #employment #engineer

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy. ↗

— Jake Gyllenhaal

#attracted #close #close friends #couples #every

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#brains #case #clocks #closes #gives

I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it. ↗

— Rex Hunt

#because #close #day #even #eyes

We are a step closer to it now - the doomsday scenario. ↗

— Tim Hutchinson

#doomsday #now #scenario #step

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#close #dangerously #everything #find #nothing