#close

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#chewing #chewing gum #close #device #gum

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#adventure #answers #any #close #home

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove. ↗

— James Beattie

#day #forgetfulness #grove #hamlet #heard

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#actual #actual process #closely #examining #i

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#another #close #dance #end #grown

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#gotta #important #important thing #life #money

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa. ↗

— Ron Wood

#close #go #got #growing #growing up

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful-creatures #beautiful-darkness #closeness #distance #far

The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#stars #beauty

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#best #close #dad #gives #good