When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.
We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.
Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.
Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.
I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
As anyone who follows me on Twitter will know, I'm fairly robust in my views on there. I get next to nothing in the way of trolling. Most women I know who regularly come close to expressing an opinion get trolled constantly. This is a men-on-women issue. Guys are pretty much doing it to the girls.
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.
There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.
I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.
President Obama has been very clear as he laid out the goal, and the objective is to close Guantanamo.
I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.
My goal as a novelist is to create smart entertainment, books that keep bright people up too late, that make them want to read just one more chapter. Books that have ideas threaded in amidst the thrilling bits, ideas that I hope linger even after people close the book.
There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks.
But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy. So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view.
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.
For Belle d'Opium, I tried to express a power that was docile and feline at once, a total release, close to enchantment. Something extreme.
In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.
Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.
I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.
I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!
I've seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I'd sure like to be part of reversing that trend.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
