Closest Quotes - Page 17

• Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

  Gerhard Richter

  Snapshots, Achieve, States

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• Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

  Linda Lingle

  Home, Careers, Decision

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• I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

  Lisette Model

  Love, Photography, Truth

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.

  Dov Davidoff

  Telescopes, Window, Aim

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jan 16, 2012

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• Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

  Wes Nisker

  Spiritual, Crazy, Expression

  Scoop Nisker, Wes Nisker (1990). “Crazy Wisdom”

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• Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

  Caryl Rivers

  Smell, Machines, Time Machine

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

  Chris Hardwick

  Cousin, Mean, Animal

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• I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Mother, Children, People

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• When I worked on an erotic shoot... I shot digitally. It helped the models get into it because they could come over and see what was happening. It was the closest to being sexual, because it was a participatory experience.

  Rankin

  Erotic, Shots, Models

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• The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

  Deepak Chopra

  Bliss

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• Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.

  Richard Moss

  Relationship, Past, Support You

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• The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Civilization, Two

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• Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

  Heather O'Neill

  Numbness, Self, Able

  Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

  Judy Woodruff

  School, Thinking, People

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• Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.20

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• Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, World, Painting

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.7

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• Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Fall, Opposites, Way

  "House Of Leaves author Mark Z. Danielewski on his new book and sewing paper" by Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2012.

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• When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Movement, Way

  "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, p. 55, 1968.

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• No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. These guys do not do friends in the orthodox sense!

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Guy, Hollywood, Orthodox

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• I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Drawing, Dubious

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.141, Univ of California Press

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• It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Notebook, Artist, Essence

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• I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.

  Billy Zane

  Past, Thinking, Attention

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• The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

  Avery Brundage

  Inspirational, Men, Yards

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• As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.

  Francis Collins

  Mean, Dna, Special

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• If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Photography, Art, Powerful

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