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Famous Close Up Quotes

I prefer to see with closed eyes. - Josef Albers

I prefer to see with closed eyes. β€” Josef Albers

Shut your eyes and see. β€” James Joyce

Close your eyes and you will see. β€” Joseph Joubert

I shut my eyes in order to see. - Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see. β€” Paul Gauguin

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. β€” Andy Warhol

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there. - Rumi

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there. β€” Rumi

In the company of the blind, close your eyes. β€” Turkish Proverbs

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use. β€” Plotinus

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed. β€” Tony Arata

My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me. β€” Paul Gauguin

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. β€” Roy Orbison

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. β€” Saint Augustine

Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams. β€” Hiromu Arakawa

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. β€” Sylvia Plath

Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them. β€” Frederick Lenz

Short Close Up Quotes

  • Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. β€” Anthony Doerr
  • Your eyes make me shy β€” Anais Nin
  • I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed. β€” Delano Johnson
  • Just close your eyes and enjoy the rollercoaster that is life :) β€” Zayn Malik
  • Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream, but then open your eyes and see β€” Puff Daddy
  • Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. β€” Thomas Jefferson
  • Some of the greater things are unseen. That's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream. β€” Kathy Baker
  • The eyes those silent tongues of love. β€” Miguel de Cervantes
  • How did you get here? Close your eyes . . . and surrender! β€” Rumi
  • If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. β€” African Proverbs

Top 10 Close Up Quotes

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Failing for Success β€” Thomas A. Edison

I have never been concerned about winning the Ballon d'Or or being the best player in the world. The best player is already here and that's Messi. And now I can see him from close up and help him. β€” Neymar

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better. β€” Halle Berry

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot. - Buster Keaton

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot. β€” Buster Keaton

Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. β€˜The rest of us just show up and get to work. β€” Oliver Burkeman

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. β€” Mary Cheney

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. - Chuck Palahniuk

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. β€” Chuck Palahniuk

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close. - Howard G. Hendricks

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close. β€” Howard G. Hendricks

People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them. β€” James Clear

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted. β€” Gale Sayers

Close Up Image Quotes

Close up quote Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.

Keep Your Eyes Closed Quotes

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open. β€” Tupac Shakur

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. β€” Paulo Coelho

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after. β€” James Dobson

Close up quote Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and
Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fight battles that nobody knows about.

When I look into your eyes I still get weak And when Im this close to you I just cant speak And its hard to keep my hands to myself When I know I could never love anybody else β€” Gary Allan

Life's a roller coaster. Best damn ride in the park. You don't close your eyes, hold on and wait for it to be over, babe. You keep your eyes open, lift your hands straight up in the air and enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts. β€” Kristen Ashley

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today. β€” Richard Rohr

Close up quote It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remo
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.

Birth order effects are like those things that you think you see out of the corner of your eye but that disappear when you look at them closely. They do keep turning up but only because people keep looking for them and keep analyzing and reanalyzing their data until they find them. β€” Judith Rich Harris

Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well. β€” Morgan Freeman

Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen. β€” Lil Wayne

so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while. β€” Taylor Swift

She Closed Her Eyes Quotes

Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could. β€” Lauren Kate

She'd play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She'd hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies. β€” Ricky Nelson

When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt She is perfect And you feel like you are everything. β€” Henry Rollins

Close up quote You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner. β€” Victor Hugo

Yeah. Rose." Jill sighed and stared vacantly ahead. "She's all he sees when he closes his eyes. Flashing dark eyes and a body full of fire and energy. No matter how much he tries to forget her, no matter how much he drinks . . . she's always there. He can't escape her. β€” Richelle Mead

Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: Blind yourself, for I am blind. β€” Luigi Pirandello

Close up quote Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave
Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.

She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place. It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying; for death looked lovely in her face. β€” Francesco Petrarca

A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night. β€” Emile Gaboriau

Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn’t mad at her, but if he was she couldn’t blame him. If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry. β€” Rick Riordan

She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said. β€” Rainbow Rowell

Closing My Eyes Quotes

I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life. β€” John Wesley

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. β€” Johnny Depp

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for. β€” Louis Armstrong

Close up quote You never know how close you are. Never give up on your dreams.
You never know how close you are. Never give up on your dreams.

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy. β€” Anonymous

I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around me. Whenever I desire, I can retreat to that quiet place within simply by closing my eyes. β€” Doreen Virtue

I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin?The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold β€” Chuck Schuldiner

Close up quote There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.
There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.

After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born. β€” Annie Oakley

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) β€” Christopher Nolan

When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within β€” Pipilotti Rist

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking. β€” Laura Moriarty

Closing Your Eyes Quotes

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet. β€” Leonardo da Vinci

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. β€” Bill Hicks

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before. β€” Erich Fromm

Close up quote Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

Sit down, close your eyes, get in a comfortable position, and whatever happens, happens. If you think, you think. If you don’t think, you don’t think. Don’t put any effort into it. β€” Naval Ravikant

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. β€” Pablo Neruda

Close your eyes. Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease. β€” Andrew Tate

Close up quote Today I close the door the door to my past, open the door to my future, take a deep breath and step
Today I close the door the door to my past, open the door to my future, take a deep breath and step through to a new life.

Prosperity Gospel”. At his United Church Science of Living Institute in New York he would tell his congregation β€œclose your eyes and see green. Money up to your armpits, a roomful of money and there you are, just tossing around in it like a swimming pool. β€” Reverend Ike

The very definition of power for me is the ability to close your eyes and imagine a world, and then open them... and make that world come true. β€” Tom Bilyeu

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you. β€” Steve Buscemi

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. β€” Linji Yixuan

Eyes Shut Quotes

The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton. β€” CM Punk

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice. β€” Saint Augustine

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut β€” Alexander Graham Bell

As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy. β€” H. P. Lovecraft

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. β€” Aristophanes

Observe with the eyes; listen with the ears; shut the mouth. β€” American Proverbs

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. β€” Neil Armstrong

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. - Cato The Elder

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. β€” Cato The Elder

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations. β€” J. August Strindberg

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations. β€” August Strindberg

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More Close Up Quotes

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so. β€” Julius Caesar

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice. β€” Robert Kennedy

And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. β€” Warsan Shire

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again. β€” Sojourner Truth

Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya. β€” Yasmin Mogahed

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied. β€” Shams Tabrizi

Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea. β€” Edward Abbey

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! β€” Elif Safak

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. β€” David Hyde Pierce

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics. β€” Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. β€” Joe Rogan

I think our economic financial condition is fragile. It’s going to come home to roost in ugly ways. I will tell you; I don’t know exactly how it will happen. I think we’re going to end up in a situation where we find out the banks are closed for two or three weeks, and nobody can get into them. I also think that the levels of violence and criminality in our cities is so high that it’s going to spill over into other places in society. People that normally think that they can live remote from the problem are now beginning to be touched by the problem. β€” Douglas Macgregor

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets? β€” Brenda Blethyn

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close. β€” Carl Sagan

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor. β€” Percy Wynham Lewis

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor. β€” Wyndham Lewis

I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this way. I think about the ruin, devastation and wreckage I have caused to myself and to others. I think about self-hatred and self-loathing. I think about how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't. β€” James Frey

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word. β€” Erma Bombeck

As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter. β€” Lauren Oliver

The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that. β€” Brian Houston

The territory of the Japanese islands makes up a country that is bigger than France or Germany. However, 3/4 of the land is not conducive to human habitation, especially in the mountainous regions, and only 13% is suitable for intensive cultivation. This leaves the Japanese living in close proximity to each other along the coastal plains and in restricted inland areas. β€” Tim Marshall

I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to. β€” David Gallagher

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion. β€” George Eads

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world. β€” Ron Padgett

It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good. β€” Jose Mourinho

Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just... (wipes his nose) β€” Eddie Harris

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. β€” King Hussein I

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could. β€” Meredith Willson

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her. β€” Zac Efron

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling. β€” Daniel Craig

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up. β€” Bob Schieffer

The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family. β€” Margot Kidder

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually. β€” Bob Balaban

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. β€” Terry Eagleton

In Conclusion

Reading eyes closed quotes can truly be a wonderful experience. They encourage you to keep your eyes closed to the negativity and open your heart to the beauty of life. These quotes can help you appreciate the little moments, like a cat drinking milk with closed eyes, or the simple joy of a smile with closed eyes. They can also inspire you to be more like 'she closed her eyes', fully embracing the present moment, and less like 'eyes open mouth closed', always observing but never truly participating. So why not let these quotes enrich your perspective and guide you towards a more fulfilling life?

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