#close

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#closed #entire #francisco #go #go home

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#close #close friends #could #dinner #dinner parties

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blind #closes #eyes #love #love is

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#chloe #closed #curse #doors #even

I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided. ↗

— Mark Morris

#as far as #closed #closed system #complicated #decided

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. ↗

— Sonny Terry

#closest #culture #deep #deep way #express

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#close #family #foundation #game #high

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#being myself #closest #competition #decided #discovery

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#cities #closed #everything #forces #israeli