#near

Nearly all Italian officers speak French. ↗

— Hugh Dalton

#italian #nearly #officers #speak

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me. ↗

— Bil Keane

#dear #doing #family #father #feel

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. ↗

— John Keegan

#been #educated #educated people #find #graduates

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#born #grew #i #i was born #june

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#myself #nearest #shakespeare #would

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#been #certainly #course #fiction #i

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#does #dragon #him #leave #live

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#diplomacy #draws #management #must #near

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. ↗

— Diana Krall

#combination #creeps #experience #how #imagination

But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#allow #berlin #draw #enough #get