Closely Quotes

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn’t considered before.

The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real.

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.