Famous Quotes & Sayings

The proposal to close failing schools after a year is unrealistic, inappropriate and unhelpful.

Ralph Miller

The project would cost close to $500 million to put into place. We are trying to overcome all the obstacles and we are in the planning stages.

Oprah Winfrey

Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Omar Khayyam

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Tim Mason has been close to the helm for 10 years so he's got to know something.

Tour companies and Thai nationals who want to travel to Nepal (should) increase vigilance and closely monitor the political situation.

Trading is rather quiet this week because of Columbus Day and the Jewish holidays. You often see big swings in prices when the volume is low. Also, gasoline is close to $1.80, which is probably a little overboard in spite of the fall in demand.

Toys 'R' Us will close some of its stores but it's not going away, ... You can't lose sight of how the consumer perceives this retailer. The company has taken a knock but consumers still see it as a powerful brand.

Dwane Casey

You lose that many close games, it will shake your confidence.

Today we are no closer (to an agreement). What we're dealing with here is an election campaign.

Robert Moore

to be as close to those standards as humanly possible.

Steven Pinker

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

Salman Khan

I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.

George Hickenlooper

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.

Walter Salles

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

Athol Fugard

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

Sinead O'Connor

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

I do yoga every day, some sport, have a meal once a day, eat some fruit, and drink one glass of wine. And once a month I gather together my close friends. But my wife and I do not like conspicuous luxury.

Bas Rutten

I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

Tim Crouch

'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness, some right close to the edge of despair moments.

Tyler Hamilton

If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.

Tyler, The Creator

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

When the (Phoenix) steel company closed 30 years ago, no one realized in 10 years, we would all be jobless and our downtown would be in ruins.

We want to be close to our customers. They're like family to us.

We want to acknowledge the good deeds of Good Samaritans -- from professional rescue workers to passersby and everyday people -- who helped save the lives of people very close to us.

We are not in a good place. We should be closer now. There should be more progress. And I can't stand here and say that I am comfortable with the negotiations as they stand at this instant.

We are not in a good place. We should be closer now.

We are not giving out free tuition. Providence's tuition will be close to $7,000 next year. We need every penny of it.

We (are) not closed only to one, let?s say the organizers (of the show). We think many are responsible.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.

Laura Riding

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

Lauren Myracle

I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.

Lance Loud

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.