Even Bigger Black Guy: It ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving.
I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.
In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.
The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.
To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.
I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
Cogsworth: [Maurice has opened his door to peek inside] Sir, close that at once! Do you mind?
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30... :)
Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.
