#close

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. ↗

— Tori Amos

#chinese #close #comes #description #each

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#close #close relationship #however #need #relationship

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#after #clinton #clinton administration #committee #designs

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. ↗

— David Antin

#format #henry #henry james #i #i can

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#bad #bad review #bleed #close #copiously

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#healthy #his #how #illness #loves

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. ↗

— Russell Baker

#calls #closets #cockroaches #couple #grow

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell. ↗

— Stephen Baker

#cell #cell phone #child #closer #contact

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#always #beginning #close #dialogue #done

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#close #computer #every #five #ideal