#close

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#basis #been #close #i #i am

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#close #everything #going #into #several

Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#ally #clear #clear message #close #close friend

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#beings #close #death #found #human

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#close #custer #general #observer #personal

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#closer #distance #greater #look #looks

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#average #averaging #beginning #built #close

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bill #closely #days #had #him

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!' ↗

— Geena Davis

#back #bends #caught #close #doors

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states. ↗

— Demosthenes

#despots #free #never #safe #states