T Quotes
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“The closest I ever came to death was masturbating with a 104-degree temperature.”
“The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.”
“The closest I ever got to Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms was when I bought the box game set for the latter (I think this was before the novels came out). I well recall this—we were living in James Bay, in Victoria. We opened the box up and took out the maps while sitting in a Mexican restaurant. Ten minutes later I was as close as I have ever been to publicly burning someone else’s creation…What bothered us was the reworking of every fantasy cliché imaginable, all in one package now, and none of it made sense.”
“The closest I’ve come to sparks flying at my writing hangout was when an elderly man’s portable oxygen tubes fell off his face while he was reaching for a piece of pie. I bent over to pick them up for him, and when I attempted to hand them over, our fingers brushed, and I felt a gust of air blow right between my legs. The moment was ruined when I looked down to see that I had yanked the tubes out of the tank, and it was blowing fresh O2 right in my special place.”
Source: One Moment Please
“The closest I've ever come to saying "no" is "Not now, we're landing."”
“The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.”
“The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.”
“The closest my generation will ever come to the spirit of the original Woodstock was September 12th, 2001. For a few weeks, we believed that we were integral members of the brotherhood of Man. It didn't matter who our neighbors were (aside from a few isolated cases of the paranoia-induced beatings of Sikh children). We wanted to make sure they were holding up so that we could feel that they wanted to know the same about us. We needed a national tragedy beyond our reckoning to shake us loose from the mundane, a trip far more heinous than anything the infamous brown acid would have given us. Woodstock existed for people on the brink of seeing what life meant. September 12th was in acknowledgment for how that life could end, and the almost guilty thrill that we made it through.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.”
“The closest one person can get to another is through silence.”
Source: I Served the King of England
“The closest people can be the coldest strangers. Sometimes blood means nothing when the heart's checked out.”
Source: In the Spaces We Don't Talk About: A Companion For the Upspoken Truth We Carry
“The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.”
“The closest thing I could think of that men go through is like a prisoner of war being tortured, and then coming back from that experience. It's traumatic and grounding and makes you commit to the world. Also, because you want all of these things for your kid.”
“The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.”
“The closest thing I’ve ever seen to God is when you see people sacrifice knowingly without Any concern for themselves. -- Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, US Army in "Modern Warriors”
Source: Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes
“The closest thing is, uh, in 1917, they say, uh, The Great- the Great Pandemic; and it certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people; probably ended the Second World War, all the soldiers were sick.”
“The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.”
“The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think might be important or pivotal, a lot of times I'll scribble notes down somewhere until I can get back to the book. Of course half the time I look at those notes the next morning and think, "What was that about?"”
“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
Source: Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings
“The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program”
“The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.”
“The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.”
“The closest thing to perfection is imperfection”
“The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.”
“The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.”
Source: Abundance for What?
“The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.”
“The closest to my heart is not just one book - it’s the whole series of novels, Indigo Diaries. The first volume, “Gods’ Food,” is already available in English.”
“The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .”
Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
“The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.”
“The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.”
“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”
“The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.”
Source: Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4
“The closet exists because people don't talk about it, so that people going into political careers make a calculation early on. They say to themselves, "well, the closet is under the radar, I can do this."”
“The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.”
Source: Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1
“The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.”
“The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.”
“The closing of our earthly eyes is such a simple event. The shedding of the physical body does not solve the fundamental problems of enlightenment, just as changing ones clothes has nothing to do with the deep questions of life and destiny.”
“The closing of the door signified the closing of a complete chapter from her life”
Source: Soul Seekers
“The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.”
Source: The Life and Times of John Huss: Or, The Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
“The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.”
Source: On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
“The cloth cap on my head
doesn't tell
what's in it.”
Source: Poems of Nazım Hikmet
“The cloth of a person is never a true measure of his wisdom and understanding”
“The clothes are not making me If I like it, that's all that mattersIt's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.”
“The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10”
Source: Where She Went
“The clothes are so cute. On little kids .. it's so cute with accessories and little details.”
“The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.”
“The clothes do not match my personality. I'm more of a very conservative, blue-blazer kind of guy. But as far as my personality, it's a lot of hot-dog mustard - have a lot of a fun and a lot of excitement. I feel like I'm 68; I act like I'm 12, talking about a game of basketball.”
“The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.”
“The clothes have no emperor.”
Source: Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion