Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Butterfield

I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time.

Sela Ward

You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much.

Tony Tan

Singapore is an international city, and it would be a grave mistake to close our doors.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

Virginia Postrel

Kidney donors don't have to be close relatives of recipients, but they do need to have the right blood type. And kidneys from living donors tend to last many years longer than kidneys from deceased donors.

Ansel Elgort

I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.

Alex Steffen

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

Alexander Payne

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

Ban Ki-moon

When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

Ban Ki-moon

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Kurt Vonnegut

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Kelly Ripa

When I get close to crossing that line or when I go over it, I get 'the look' from Regis,

We have looked at a lot of players on trial an it is our intention to sign a new forward before the close of the transfer window.

We have linked this gastrointestinal outbreak to the Sprayground attraction, and it has been closed down for the year.

We have let a few close ones slip us by in recent weeks and I though we closely that game out pretty strongly.

Isa Gambar

We have learned many important lessons from our Georgian colleagues and our Ukrainian colleagues. We are studying very closely their method for coming to power peacefully, and trying to follow their example.

Vladimir Kramnik

You know, our ratings after this match will be very close - I think I can also become the world number one in the not too distant future. However, I'm sure that Garry will also have something to say about this!

Sidney Crosby

Nothing close to the extent of what he was saying, let's put it that way.

Lynda Carter

Nothing can trump that trial. It was hard on me, hard on the family -- very difficult for all of us. But we weathered the storm, and we are closer and better and have a keener sense of what is valuable in life.

People will now watch closely the response of the PSNI to all of this.

Phase 2 studies are typically well controlled and closely monitored and may involve up to several hundred patients. At the conclusion of these studies, FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and the sponsor usually meet to determine how the drug's development should be studied in Phase 3 and how to design and conduct further trials.

Rocco Mediate

Phil is right there, he's close. Tiger is always close -- as long as he's upright, Tiger's close.

Post offices are pretty much in every neighborhood and generally much closer than a UPS depot.

Pope John Paul II envisioned this as the conclusion of the exhibit. He wanted people to touch the hand to feel close to him.

Personally, it's exciting. Every hurdle is another step closer to a full recovery.

My understanding was that pitch she threw was a little too close to the plate. Hillary just reached out and punched it.

My understanding is that the deal is not going to close today.

Only if we have very short memories can we say there's a downturn in sales, or at least that sales are significantly low. This is actually as close to a normal market that we've had in seven to eight years.

No. 20 was on fire. And two of those she hit my players were pretty close to her.

Lyndon Johnson

Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose

On paper, (Pennsylvania is) potentially a huge market. But Pennsylvania has been a moving target in terms of getting the legislation passed. We think by the time it comes closer to be defined, it could be a great market for our server-based products.

On one hand, you don?t want every game to down to the wire, but we know that we can win those close games now. Even if things don?t go exactly as they should.