Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are seven teams in the tournament that could win it. It's the closest I've seen since I've been in the conference.

James Thurber

The question of whether the vice president was involved, we'll probably never know. But it was pretty close to him,

Ciaran Hinds

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

Claire Cameron

Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.

Bruce McCulloch

But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.

Bashar al-Assad

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

Andrew Stanton

There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.

Buzz Osborne

To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'

Bahman Ghobadi

I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.

Banks

My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart.

Anthony Carmona

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

We have to close it down because we can no longer ensure the safety of our patients or our staff in that hospital.

I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

Elena Roger

In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound.

Evangelista Torricelli

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

Evanna Lynch

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.

Fabiola Gianotti

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

Fabiola Gianotti

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Conor Oberst

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

Elaine Stritch

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

Gary Johnson

I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so.

Gary Hamel

A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.

Thomas More

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close

We let it slip away big time. We have to finish them off when we have the opportunity. We have got to find a way to win these close games at the end.

We let a couple guys get some confidence and they did a nice job capitalizing, but we have got to get that killer instinct and close the game.

We landed on ice. It was closest thing to feeling like you were on another planet.

We're looking at and evaluating the technologies that would drive mobility. We stay close to what's going on there... It's emerging.

Blake Shelton

Anybody that has followed closely what I've been doing can see from 'Home,' being as big a hit as it was, it kind of opened the door for me to try new things musically.

J. G. Ballard

Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

Billy Porter

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

Hesiod

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Dick Costolo

One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley.

Diane Warren

A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out the window.