#close

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? ↗

— Debra Winger

#actual experience #afraid #after #because #choice

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them. ↗

— Robert Wise

#apple #box #closed #decisions #include

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#dictators #few #i #life #met

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#animated #animated films #animation #beginner #best

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#asking #because #bone #books #calling

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

I have a very close relationship with my parents. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#close relationship #i #parents #relationship #very

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#aura #been #beginning #closeted #continues

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. ↗

— William Wycherley

#close #death #eyes #foes #hunger

This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#had #i #impress #last #office