Quotes of: Near Keyword

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Fritz Kreisler

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

Clara Hughes

Life is just one big fight, and giving up puts us nowhere near of winning that fight

Christy Salomein

Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here?

Charles M. Schulz

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

Jami Attenberg

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Elizabeth Bowen

Don't allow us, Father, as the end draws near to be paralyzed in waiting for a complicated scheme or fancy equipment. WE ARE THE EQUIPTMENT.

Brian Eshleman

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Haruki Murakami

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

Jim Nussle

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Jon Voight

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.

Doris Duke

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Denis Diderot

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

Graydon Carter

For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.

Howard Schultz

I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.

Jackie Earle Haley

Sergeant Prendergast: [Standing on the hill near the convenience store] Hey, Mr. Lee! D-FENS!

Falling Down

Jimmy Conway: [after kicking Batts to near death] Look what this fucking mutt did to my shoes

Goodfellas

Marius: In my life, there is someone who touches my life. Waiting near... Éponine: Waiting here...

Les Misérables

Leonard Shelby: [looking at a near-empty bottle of alcohol in his hand] Hmmm. I don't feel drunk.

Memento