Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Ira Sachs

I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

Ira Glass

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

Ira Glass

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

Ira Glass

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

Carolyn Kizer

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

Nimrat Kaur

Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both.

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.

We had a quarter of an inch of rain on Saturday, and that's been the extent of it for the last 10 days or so. It's as close to being perfect as it can possibly be.

When they are together, they simply smile and want to sit close to each other, holding each other's hand, and sneaking a kiss whenever possible.

When (the TSX) opens after being closed while the U.S. market was open, all the inter-listed stocks get adjusted.

When you're standing close and there's a fresh deer in it, you can smell it. But it doesn't take long for the smell to go away.

Daniel Briere

When you're so close to playing, it's going to be frustrating if I don't have time to get into a game before the break.

Jack Rio

When you're plus-five on the turnover ratio, it shouldn't be that close. For us to be that close at the end of the game was a direct result of not finishing in the red zone with touchdowns. ... We want to be stronger and punch it in down there.

Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Tim Phillips

Whereas we're 87 percent. So it seems to me we are much closer to equal prize money than they are on the rest of the tour.

When you wrestle a team so many times it gets closer and closer, but that didn't happen today. The kids wrestled great and we were able to rotate kids in. It feels great. It's a little different going in as a favorite. We have to take it one step at a time, two down five to go.

When he birdied 15, 16, 17, and 18, I didn't even come close to matching that. That's pretty tough to come back from.

Noah Baumbach

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

Noah Feldman

Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.

Mike Wallace

But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think it's simply wonderful. I was not a happy kid. Back in those days, I remember the sick, gray days were better. Because when it was sunny I'd feel worse.

Nan Hayworth

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.

Nastassja Kinski

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

Naomi Benaron

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Ellen Greene

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

Pope Benedict XVI

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.