Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Domenici

I am close to the position right now that if there are not across-the-board cuts I will not support the bill,

I am close to being three weeks out of surgery so who knows?

John Lasseter

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.

Mark Dayton

I am deeply concerned that he and President Bush's next nominee will shift the Supreme Court close to the extreme right for many years to come,

Joseph Estrada

I am keeping my fingers crossed. I am going to do all I can do so that PAL will not close down,

Karen Hughes

I am here to listen and to learn and to work to strengthen the relationship and close partnership between our two countries,

The public computer lab is not even close to having your own machine.

The program has grown not only statewide, but nationwide. Our facility is not close to where the program is. (A new facility) is something that has to be accomplished if we want to keep up with other teams in the state.

We've succeeded to get our hands on an important historical document that was so close to being lost and destroyed forever.

E. B. White

We've run that play, some version of it, close to 40 times this year,

We should win at least seven games. There were a couple close game we could have one.

We shoot 150 a week. We have to, I was tired of losing close games because of foul shooting.

Wal-Mart has a tremendous effect on the market. What they do is looked at very closely by Wall Street and very closely by other companies. I suspect we'll see other companies follow their lead.

Wall Street has come pretty close to being an around-the-clock enterprise anyway.

A. J. Cook

I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

Amanda Harlech

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

Aly Khan

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

Seth Shostak

Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.

Steve Whitmire

The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

Gia Coppola

My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.

Christopher Lee

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

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.

The fact that we got so close is something I am immensely proud of - it is pretty ruddy good from where we started from.