I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That’s 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.

My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I’ve read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I’ve had the “To be or not to be” monologue memorized since I was 15, and it’s just really close to my heart.

For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see

That is God’s call to us – simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, …awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it’s worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. —The Thousandth Man

Shortly before the end, with a gleam of joy, she suddenly realized that she had never been so close to someone she loved so much.

My life closed twice before its close.

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

I’m really close to all of my family.

My family’s really close.

I’ve spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

Trees, in particular, were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open

Live close, visit often.

You know how a voice can stir one. Your voice and the voice of Sibyl Vane are two things that I shall never forget. When I close my eyes, I hear them, and each of them says something different. I don’t know which to follow

But close ain’t close enough ’til we cross the line, baby

I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. And all because they’re Jews

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.