Closing Quotes

• One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Fall
  • Water
  • Ideas

• It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Answers

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Closing

• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Children
  • City
  • Closing

• We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • May
  • Wall
  • Jerusalem

• Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Sides
  • Elections
  • Closing

• You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open TWO jars! I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars... cltaning, who KNOWS how many knives!?

  

  Brian Regan
  • Opening
  • Knives
  • Sandwiches

• I grew up in the Middle East, and I worry that AI increases the socioeconomic divide as opposed to closing the gap.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Middle
  • Grew
  • East

• You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Guy
  • Week
  • Hours

• If I'm nominated for Grammy I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Stage
  • Careers
  • Grammy

• If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Fear
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Too Late
  • Closing
  • Stare

• Thus the closing scenes of this present age will be a reproduction of the days of Noah: the same intense worldliness, and at last positive inability to care for the things of God, which was displayed by the antediluvians, will also be characteristic of our world when Christ begins the judgments that will quickly culminate in the glory of His appearing.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Age
  • Present
  • Scenes

• The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Years
  • End
  • Masks

• The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Question
  • Silence
  • Professional

• Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Baby

• The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

  

  William Law
  • Soul
  • Christian
  • Religious

• It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.

  

  Tom Frieden
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Window

• Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This." I said. And then I kissed him.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Space
  • Said
  • Steps

• I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Mean
  • Car
  • Driving

• Closing the door to toxicity is the most effective way to make space for new opportunity.

  

  Amy Chan
  • Opportunity
  • Way
  • Space

• I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Silence

• When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Eyes
  • Violence
  • Minds

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