#closed

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#companies #down #ealing #films #i

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#closed #compromise #conciliation #conflict #dignity

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#connor #door #going #i #in the past

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#closed #come #crazy #drive #ever

Things go backward. And then, one day, whatever it is we had, it’s gone. It won’t come back. We both know it. Whatever it is she let me have, she has taken it away. Whatever it is when two people agree to briefly occupy the same space, agree to allow their lives to overlap in some small area, some temporary region of the world, a region they create through love or convenience, or for us, something even more meager, whatever that was, it has collapsed, it has closed. She has closed herself to me. ↗

— Charles Yu

#convenience #loneliness #love #love

The door can never be closed for good to any player. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#closed #door #good #never #player

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing. ↗

— John Zorn

#closed #ears #get #going #great

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#every #eye #not sleeping #open #seeing

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#approaches #back #closed #eyes #his

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#garden #i #law #only #position