Closing Quotes
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The era of free speech is closing down. The freedom of the press in Britain was always something of a fake, because in the last resort, money controls opinion; still, so long asthe legal right tosay what you like exists, there are always loopholes for an unorthodox writer.
— 1938 In the New Leader, 24 Jun.
Politics is just like show business?a hell of an opening, you coast for a while, you have a hell of a closing.
— 1995 In the NewYorkTimes, 23 Apr.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
Carl Sandburg— 1923 'Poetry Considered', in the Atlantic Monthly, Mar.
"Breaking the bank at Monte Carlo" is a euphemism for closing a single gaming table. It was last accomplished at the Casino Ste. des Bains de Mer during the final days of 1957, with a harvest of 180 million francs.
richard arnold epstein— Chapter One, Kubeiagenesis, p. 10
What will you do with Jesus? Do with Him did I say? O what, what will you do without Him f What, when affliction and anguish shall come upon you? what, when closing your eyelids in death? what, when appearing before the awful judgment-seat?
richard fuller— P. 95. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
basil king— Chapter I : Fear And The Life-Principle, § XI, p. 29; sometimes paraphrased: "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
anne morrow lindbergh— Diary entry on the first anniversary of the kidnapping and death of her son Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (1 March 1932); later published in Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1974) ISBN 0156529564
The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before
johnny mercer— Song The Days of Wine and Roses
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
matt mullenweg— Steppin' off the Edge, Podcast Interview, January 2011
We are in a state where these semi-literate clerics are closing the minds of people.
pervez musharraf— Pakistan's President Says Muslim Nations Should Stop Blaming Others May 2007
[The English ruling classes are] Freemasons thoroughly infected by Juda. The British people must be liberated from the Antichrist Juda. We must drive Juda out of England just as he has been chased out of the Continent...Juda's plan has been smashed to pieces and they themselves swept out of the European Continent! [Europe is] consolidating and closing itself off from British influences after the elimination of the British and the Jews!
— Letter to Alwina Grafin von der Goltz (July/August 1940), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 211-212.
Secrets of closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.
zig ziglar— Jack Covert, in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (2009) by Jack Covert, Todd Sattersten, p. 117
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
ambrose bierce— p. 360 (Epigrams)
Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
ray bradbury— Here There Be Tygers (1951)
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead!' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
john dryden— St. 1. (A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1687))
[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
gloria estefan— Address to LULAC (July 1, 2005)
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 3 (The Reluctant Dragon)
Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre, Vaulted with all thy congregated might.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— St. II (Ode to the West Wind (1819))
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print", it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another
aleksandr solzhenitsyn— Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.Variant translation, as quoted in TIME (25 February 1974)
With a wracking head and literally my whole body shaking as with ague I write this and tell you I have just this afternoon early finished Clavicembalisticum... The closing 4 pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I've ever done the harmony bites like nitric acid the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God...
kaikhosru shapurji sorabji— Letter to his friend the Scots composer Erik Chisholm (1904-65) upon completion of Opus clavicembalisticum, 1930; quoted by pianist John Ogdon.
Over me, around me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal; that which was before the beginning, and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, the stillness, the silence the infinite and final Night of space.
— The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 19
This B-17 met a head-on attack by three Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighters. The gunners exploded two of them, and the top turret poured a stream of shells into the cockpit of the third. With a dead man at the controls, the fighter screamed in, and at a closing speed of 550 miles per hour smashed head-on into the number-three engine.
— Martin Caidin, in his book Black Thursday (1960)
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
cesare pavese— Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1950-05-10
It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended the doors we had indiscreetly opened.
— Ch. XIII (The Turn of the Screw (1898))
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Semisonic— This line was popularized by Semisonic in their hit "Closing Time" (1998), and has been widely attributed to Seneca.
The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
— Act IV. Chorus, line 12. "With clink of hammers closing rivets up." Colley Cibber's altered version of Richard III, Act V, scene 3.
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony, to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
— John Dryden (1631–1700), A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, line 11. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 147-148.
