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Quotes About Closed

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.
~ Curt Smith
In the middle of 'Bleed Red' coming out, a huge disproportionate majority of people in radio came to us and asked if they could have 'Cost of Livin' as a single. There was even talk behind closed doors about pulling 'Bleed Red' because they had caught wind and heard 'Cost of Livin'.' We went with that.
~ Ronnie Dunn
Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10 as the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer PC ecosystem and monopolising app distribution and commerce.
~ Tim Sweeney
Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.
~ Chris Bell
assemble and disperse, everything changes and is transformed, but no-o-othing can ever change from being to not-being. Not even the tiniest hair growing on the tail of some virus. The concept of infinity is indeed open, infinitely open, but at the same time it is also closed and hermetically sealed. Nothing leaves and nothing enters.
~ Amos Oz
Dezgustat? de pozitivismul vieÅ£ii,sufletul s?u închis ÅŸi umilit începea s? iubeasc? poezia.Lua drept poetic tot ceea ce o ajuta s? evadeze din via??.
~ Andre Gide
advocates unfettered scientific research and debate—but then, with no evidence, simply declares discussions about evolution and global warming closed; •
~ Ann Coulter
Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind
~ Scott Lynch
Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
~ Anna Quindlen
When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.
~ Anne Bronte
Finally I closed my eyes and opened them again, and I smiled very gently at the creature.
~ Anne Rice
I saw her shimmering face for an instant; she came towards me; I thought this is death again, this is death coming, the woods and the wolves coming, and no place to hide, and then my eyes closed.
~ Anne Rice
stupid, and
~ Seth Godin
What are you doing out here? (Gallagher) Not much. Akri is off with that red-headed demon so he said I could go play just so long as I don't eat nothing not cooked by a human. But all my favorite places are closed so I thought I'd go find the bears myself and see if Jose, since he's human, would make me up something good that wouldn't make akri mad if I ate it. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.
~ Rob Lowe
To whom shall I speak and give warning That they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed And they cannot listen. —JEREMIAH 6:10 NASB
~ John Hagee
How long are you planning on us sitting up here, kid?" Brendan asked. I looked over at him. He sat still, with his head leant back against the rooftop wall, his eyes closed, his hands resting on his lap. "Sorry, is being here getting in the way of your beauty sleep?" "I don't need beauty sleep, kid. I'm naturally this good-looking." I snorted. "Whatever makes you feel good, Shifter." No point boosting his ego.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
You brought me to a sanitarium? Thinking of having me admitted?" "Fortunately for you, it's closed.
~ B.J. Daniels
I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
~ Gabe Newell
The thousands of blacks who were either purged from the voting rolls or falsely told the polls had closed were seen by many conservatives as not having been disciplined enough to make sure they voted. Metaphor
~ George Lakoff
When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.
~ Ulrich Beck
Forbidden zones were familiar to the point of institutionalisation in the Soviet System, but more than forty 'sensitive' cities remain shut off.
~ Sara Wheeler
My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.
~ Lizzie Borden
But—it's too dark a night to walk with your eyes closed, as my people say." Tanis sighed and nodded.
~ Margaret Weis