Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Glass

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

Ira Glass

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

Ira Glass

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

Ndamukong Suh

For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

Neill Blomkamp

If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.

We did some great things at the end of the game. It's always good to play well when it comes to the fourth quarter of a close game.

We are happy with enrollment so far. Especially since ... people don't usually enroll until the very end. We're expecting 80 percent of people who will voluntarily enroll to do so closer to the May deadline.

Luke Evans

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.

Leigh Lezark

I get startled really easily, so I hate horror films. I have to close my eyes when I think something is going to make me jump, because I just scream.

Susanne Bier

I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance.

Bonnie Tyler

When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.

Bob Ney

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.

Cam Newton

I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.

David Whyte

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

Andrei Codrescu

Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece.

Andrea Barrett

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.

We're likely to see what we would have called a soft landing six months ago. but as we got closer we got more scared of it.

Donyell Marshall

We're learning to close out games. Winning games like this shows we're a playoff team. We're going to go, we know that.

We're learning how to win, and we're learning how to close games out. There's no panic on the sideline if we're behind.

We're learning every single game we play. I knew we'd have our growing pains, but I keep feeling like we're getting closer to where we're going. These girls realize they have to work harder.

Dale Jarrett

We're late in the season, and a lot of things happen here, so I don't think that the close and hard racing is over, ... I think you're going to see a lot of it.

We're not going to close the door on anybody. We'll take the FBD League with the panel we have at the moment and then look at making changes. Nicky more than likely will be involved.

Ron Wilson

We're not even close to worn out. If we were worn out, the schedule would have killed us, and it didn't. We're a young team, and these guys are excited. They're all fired up. When you get on a roll like this, you storm into the playoffs.

We're not even close to going that far.

We're not even close to being in that game without her.

We're not even close to being done, ... But we're having an impact.

Jim Irsay

We're not even close to a consensus yet.

Mike Harris

We still have to work out the details in order to close this financing.

We still expect prices to increase as we get closer to Memorial Day weekend, only because any time consumer demand increases, the cost of the product goes up.

Khaled Hosseini

I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.