Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's the closest thing to semi-professional hockey you'll see around here.

It's the closest I've ever come. I'm hoping it is.

It's the closest contractual race I have ever seen in my time in industry.

It started in the Stanford game. We matured and got more aggressive, and stopped playing not to lose. Not having any close games in the preseason and the high ranking (No. 9), all of that played into us having to go through some things, which was good for us. We are young, and we needed to have a few growing pains.

John Buck

It's surreal because you look on TV and see the streets where (wife) Brooke and I used to drive down and it makes it feel so much more close to home,

Kara Swisher

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

it's the people you are close to, the ones who love you, theo nes who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul- to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. your heart and soul are missing. they feel it. it hurts them. it kills them.

It's the first time he's pitched this long into the season. He's close to 200 innings. It's nothing really unusual. Since the start in Chicago, he's been fine. He's ready to roll. He's done pretty good, considering he was pitching in Double-A last year.

Steve Lawrence

It's terrible to close a print voice. Print journalism is an endangered species these days. Most newspapers have a hiring freeze.

George Wilson

It's made us work closer together toward a goal, ... We've always had a good relationship.

it's looking to be a close race indeed.

Gary Player

It's like a mile race and you're 50 yards ahead. This is as close as it can be without being a tie.

Bo Ryan

It's kind of like the free throws we've given up. We've lost a couple games because (against) Michigan and Northwestern, they (didn't) miss a free throw down the stretch. We just closed out (a victory) the same way.

It's kind of like rooting in the back of a dark closet for an umbrella. I was told there's specific things that happen between Lou and his new girlfriend Candy. It's a delicate situation.

It just makes me sick to my stomach that we were close to doing something that would have been very significant and again, we come up just short on it. We had our chances.

John Jay

It just gets to the point where you ride the ponies until they fall. There's nothing to hold back on. As athletes, we think they should want to close off the season being on the floor as many minutes as possible.

It's a lot better working closer to home.

Richie Sexson

It's a loss. It's frustrating. No matter how close it is, it still goes into the loss column.

Tim Raines

It's always a great feeling. We've been close a couple of times, and in 1994 were robbed by the strike. But you never give up.

It's always a different intensity. I try to make it as close as possible. ... Overall it went pretty well. It's a matter of getting my pitches in, just getting comfortable on the mound again.

It's always a close game between us. It always seems to be a one-run game and this is a big game for our girls. They knocked us out last year and we want a little revenge.

Mark E. Smith

It's already become unaffordable to live in Orford, but this whole tax issue didn't help. I don't deny that what they've given as an appraisal on our home is close to fair market value, but the view factor is just a whole new concept.

It looks like it's getting closer and closer each day.

He's the only player I trusted. I never had to make a secondary call. We had a lot of interceptions, close to 15, because he put players in the right position.

Generally tracks get faster, temporarily, after they are resurfaced. Then they go back to normal. If there is a problem, we're staying in close touch with Humpy and the people at Lowe's and we'll deal with it.

Gap isn't a growth story anymore. Its new fourth store concept targeting the 35-and-older customer will give it some growth. But essentially the important thing for the retailer to do now is to stay the course, fix the fashion issues, make operational improvements, close underperforming stores, manage inventory and generate cash.

Goodness, no. The closest fragment will be about six million miles away--or twenty-five times farther than the Moon.

Mike Miller

Good teams win close games, so that was good for us.

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

Rachel Platten

I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.

I wanted 'Southland' to feel immediate, like a ride-along, and to make it the closest thing possible to a cop reality show. We've got real cops out there every day. A lot of times we'll say, 'You guys just do what you normally do and we'll film it.'

Jamie Dixon

I wanted to. I actually thought about putting him in when it was a close game. I have no worries about putting him in.

L'Wren Scott

I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.