#closer

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#closer #common #connection #different #different people

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. ↗

— Maya Lin

#age #closer #some #teachers #than

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#closer #every #home #home run #me

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? ↗

— Alan Bennett

#closer #grass #ground #now #were

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#because #chance #classical #classical music #closer

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

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#closer #collective #difficult #difficult times #easy

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#closer #cool #could #find #i

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#broader #closer #light #source #subject