I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
Close the playand keep the store open nights.
There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.
That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does.
There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.
I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet. . . It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.
It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.
Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.
Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was one of the best days of his life and then he took out his gun. A. 22 rifle. And he leaned forward and whispered, "Forgive me, Taylor Markham. " Before I could ask how he knew my name and what I was to forgive him for he said, "Take care of my little girl. " And then he told me to close my eyes. And I've been frightened to do just that ever since.
You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.