#close

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. ↗

— George H. White

#accuser #avenue #closes #hard #idleness

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes. ↗

— Shaun White

#close #does #eyes #feel #i

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them. ↗

— Shaun White

#before #beginning #closer #dad #even

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#bottom #close #just #top #you

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string. ↗

— Robin Williams

#bred #closest #closest thing #cook #cotton

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close. ↗

— Venus Williams

#close #definitely #fashion #guess #i

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#bending #close-up #got #him #how

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

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

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#already #automatically #clearly #close #countries