Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. N. Wilson

One is that we have 133,000 more potential targets out there, a lot closer to where harm can happen, that we've created another front for terrorism that we're now in the midst of.

Samuel Johnson

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read

One of my goals is to get the Battlefield promotion, ... So it is on my mind, but I'm trying not to dwell on it. This is definitely the closest I've been since I got my second win.

Obviously, West Virginia has played together for a long time ... but we're a close team, too.

No one's ever had a perfect game, but you strive for that perfection and the great ones, they do that. The goal is to have that pride about yourself where I'm going to work as hard as I can to come close to it.

Bill Cowher

No one has handled it more inspirationally than Tony and his wife. That's the unfortunate part of our profession, that we live in a fishbowl and we have to experience that with the rest of America. Sometimes those are things you'd just like to share with those you are very close to, but Tony has found out that he's very close to a lot of us.

No one knew I was injured. I didn't move around a lot and they kept coming closer. Then it was over, just like 'Spider in the Web' ?come closer and I'll get you.

No one expected him to be this close this soon.

Marty Schottenheimer

My expectation would be that he's closer to ready than he was at this time a week ago.

My country Serbia looks very close to Hiroshima,

Johnny Weir

I hate summer, to be honest. I hate dressing. I hate the heat. I hate sweaty people getting aggressively close to you when you're walking down the street.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

We want to have a closer look at them. We'll try to get them involved in another game.

Sylvester Croom

We want to close this thing out with these guys this weekend. This is still key. We still have top guys visiting.

Steve Case

We are highly confident we will get all the necessary approvals to close this deal in the fall.

We did not close any roads today, and we still have free sandbags available.

We did it because we felt we were so close with Cal.

We did better than we have in the past in the close games. But, it was still very frustrating, because we weren't able to get over that final hurdle.

We'd get behind, then close the gap, then they'd hit a couple of threes. We doubled Rodriguez a couple of times and left Noriega open.

Dave Mason

We developed the design and the concept to sell, and we were pretty close to selling it to Fender, ... But they leapt back out at the last minute because they had so many other companies they bought, so we just decided, 'I guess we're going to make them ourselves.' So that's what we're doing. They're great guitars, they look beautiful, sound great.

John Edward

We deserve a president who's close to our people, not close to the lobbyists, ... exclusive club.

John McCarthy

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Lupita Nyong'o

I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

Lynda Resnick

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

Kourtney Kardashian

I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take her to my mom's closet and show her the new collection.

Kourtney Kardashian

I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.

There are none. It's getting closer. These kids are playing hard and getting closer every week. We just need a breakthrough more for them than anything else.

There are some things I'd like to do. We've made some conversations with people, and some things may happen. But the tendency in this league is a lot of conversation and things don't tend to happen until you get close to the (trade) deadline.

John Wright

There are some things about this that don't pass the smell test. There are a number of very close relationships with this legislation. I just hope everybody has their eyes wide open.

Mark Shapiro

There are some subtle things to work on to become more consistent offensively and defensively, but nothing drastic. He's ready or close to ready. His time is coming very soon.

There are some other paint stores that are great, and they'll mix your paint, but not as close as you want it,

The only refineries that could use it (the emergency oil) are the ones who are up and running and working, and every day (that) another refinery closes is just another million-barrel loss for the market.