#closed

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#burning #closed #cockpit #could #enemy

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#closed #comes #every #him #his

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#any #attacks #business #closed #i

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#believe #closed #doors #happen #nothing

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. ↗

— Diana Ross

#closed #comes #fingers #grains #hand

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor. ↗

— John William McCormack

#anything #closed #corporation #find #floor

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there. ↗

— David Miliband

#always #anything #clash #clear #closed

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#because #closed #down #german #get

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#bypass #channels #closed #makes #many

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#mind #much #policy