If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.
And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.
Blay was the closest thing to an angel Qhuinn had ever come near.
I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
My first job ever was at Baskin-Robbins when I was 14, which is probably the closest I'll ever come to having a corporate job like the one I play on TV - although I do work for Universal, so I suppose that's corporate.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.
Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!
I'm certainly not saying anything new, and I'm not even saying anything all that different from what everyone else I know is saying right now - I'm saying what millions of people are saying. I'm just saying it publicly.