Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Malkovich

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

So few people have seen a kangaroo up close or in the wild and the more we worked with them, the more fascinated we became,

Michael Hitchcock

So it's sand in the hour glass now. And the closer it gets, the better it is for us.

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

She teetered really, really, really close to just being disrespected everywhere. But so did Lou Gerstner in his early days at IBM. If she's successful, it's a new model.

She was very close to hitting that one. She was feeling it at that point.

She was really close to all the kids. She was in the gym on Monday. She was a great kid and such a hard worker. She was always the first one in the gym. She was really smart and ran my scout team. She was just an incredible person. We're really going to miss her.

She was like a mother to me, too. I was pretty close to her.

She went to the doctor today, and he said it was two weeks before she could start jogging. Alicia and Sara are really close to my heart because I've coached them since the sixth grade. I was their grade school coach.

E. O. Wilson

She's right there, right there with it. Seeing death, up close and personal.

She's really stepped her game up this year. She's a really good player and there's always been a close competition between her and us because we're so familiar with one another." ()

She's really close to her family which is awesome. She always brags about her little sister and I love that about her.

She's been in OK condition, and she's getting closer to race form. She was running great times last year.

She's got a great leg. She had a lot of opportunities, and they were all so close and right on.

She's closer to me than my sisters, ... We've been through a lot together.

Darren Aronofsky

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

Dennis Ross

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

Denis Villeneuve

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

Vince Gilligan

If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.

Ray Charles

I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Rick Pitino

The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.

Noah Feldman

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways disenfranchised relative to the other groups, or at least they perceive themselves that way.

Nina Garcia

Sweaters are a closet staple. They look great under a leather vest or with a pair of tailored trousers.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.

Bobby Seale

Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.

Brooke Shields

I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

Charles M. Blow

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject.

Charles Francis Richter

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Eric Mabius

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

Erno Rubik

And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.

Carolyn Kizer

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

Nimrat Kaur

Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both.

Ira Sachs

I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.