Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. Françoise Sagan
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. George Eliot
And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. Alcuin
[Speaking about women's friendships] If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as... it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody. Jennifer Beals