„I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.“

„I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.“

—  Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

As quoted in Rolling Stone (1993-01-27).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

„I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger.
Bob Marley (March 1981)“

—  Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

„"We're very close to immortal, you know. The time mechanism keeps it that way."
"No, I hadn't known," said Boone.
"Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it."“

—  Clifford D. Simak, Highway of Eternity

Highway of Eternity (1986)

„I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.“

—  Ned Vizzini, kniha It's Kind of a Funny Story

Zdroj: It's Kind of a Funny Story

„My derring-do allows me to
Dance the rigadoon around you.
But by the time I'm close to you,
I lose my desideratum and now you.“

—  Fiona Apple singer-songwriter, musician 1977

To Your Love
Song lyrics, When the Pawn… (1999)

„Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.“

—  Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987

Response to the Maradona comparisons, 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/lionel-messi/7527633/Barcelonas-Lionel-Messi-says-he-will-never-be-as-good-as-Diego-Maradona.html

„I'm afraid of time. I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself.“

—  Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Zdroj: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

„You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.“

—  José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Former Prime Minister of Spain 1960

To Hugo Chavez, who had accused Aznar of being a racist and a fascist in the 17th Iberoamerican Summit.
As President, 2007
Zdroj: El Mundo: El Rey se enfrenta a gritos con Chávez en defensa de Aznar: ¿Por qué no te callas? http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/11/10/internacional/1194711476.html (Spanish)

„Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black,
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white.“

—  Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993

"Trouble Every Day".
Freak Out! (1966)
Varianta: Hey, you know something people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white.

„I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing.“

—  Brian Andreas American artist 1956

Zdroj: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

„I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself“

—  Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987

Nicolas Love, April 1987
1975 - 1987, BBC interview (1981)
Zdroj: Warhol in his own words – Untitled Statements ( 1963 – 1987), selected by Neil Printz, in Andy Warhol, retrospective, Art and Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457 – 467

„Not really. I don't even have enough time to pursue everything I want to do musically. Also, there's a lot of people out there who spend a lot of time trying to act, so I think most of the good acting jobs should be reserved for those people.“

—  Chris Cornell American singer-songwriter, musician 1964 - 2017

When asked if acting is something he would like to do more after his cameo in Singles ** Interview with Request Magazine, October 1994 http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/request_10-94.shtml,
Soundgarden Era

„When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them“

—  Tana French, kniha The Likeness

Zdroj: The Likeness

„Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.“

—  Brené Brown US writer and professor 1965

Zdroj: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

„I was kind of solitary. I'd spend a lot of time on my own, reading books. I didn't integrate very well.“

—  Philip Ó Ceallaigh Irish writer 1968

On Life, on his time at school.
Notes from a library bar (2006)

„Myself and the people close to me are all part of a social system, and we were being conditioned to accept the status quo.“

—  Seal (musician) British singer-songwriter 1963

As quoted in "Seal" profile at Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (CBS) (4 December 2007)
Kontext: Myself and the people close to me are all part of a social system, and we were being conditioned to accept the status quo. But on this album, I'm saying it's time for us to take charge. We can change it. We can take control of our emotional system and be happy. My point is don't just sit there and allow life to happen to you. Go out and take charge if you want change, but it begins closer to home.

„I'm going to make myself seem more mysterious because I'm really not so mysterious. Or, if I am, it's because everybody is a mystery. Now that I'm older, at least I can be more amused by what people said.“

—  Nastassja Kinski German actress 1961

Movieline, April 1997

„I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I don't have to watch the evening news to see that the world is bad, I only have to look at myself. I am not browbeating myself here; I am only saying that true change, true life-giving, God-honoring change wound have to start with the individual. I was the very problem I had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read "I AM THE PROBLEM."“

—  Donald Miller, kniha Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

„Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.

That would fix a lot of people.“

—  Sylvia Plath, kniha The Bell Jar

Zdroj: The Bell Jar