Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

When you go down there and meet with them, keep as many options open as possible. We don't want any closed door deals. And we're not going to quit what we're doing with two weeks off.

We've got to figure out a way, but obviously, post defense starts with good perimeter defense. We've just got to continue to show improvement. We're not close to where we need to be offensively or defensively.

Carla Hall

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.

Cindy Morgan

Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit.

Ray Floyd

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

With earnings winding down and not as much to focus on, you're getting very volatile reactions to economic numbers that are actually pretty close to estimates. You're also seeing some of the defensive names that are dependent on an economic recovery trading lower.

While it sounds as if most members see that the series of rate hikes since June 2004 is close to the end, it's not over until the economy slows. The minutes are a little past their stale date. Commodity prices are soaring.

Without a 'depression panic,' short-term rates probably would have bottomed fairly close to where they are today. Essentially, the Fed has just now returned interest rates back to recession lows and can now 'begin' to tighten.

With only two candidates, it's going to give voters an opportunity to very closely examine the track record of service to the town of Paradise Valley of the two candidates.

Dusty Baker

Without his 5-0, we wouldn't be close to where we are. He's not gloating or reveling over what he's done, he just continues to do what he's doing.

Dusty Baker

Without his 5-0, we wouldn't be close to where we are.

With Ted, I don't think we were headed in the right direction. With Brian, it seems like we are. I was relieved; it closed the door on that.

We need to discover who we are, get closer to what Northwestern needs to be this year.

We need to close this one way or another. We are going to push it.

We have met with Torrie Cox regarding the seriousness of these charges. We will continue to closely monitor this situation and cooperate with the investigation completely.

We have measures in place to spot counterfeit currency, and we have always worked closely with law enforcement authorities on this problem, including the most recent events.

Charles Elachi

We will never be as close to the rings as that first pass.

When the game was close we didn't have enough patience. Everyone wanted to hit one out of the park.

When the dust settles in three years or so, Sony will be back up on top. But it will be a close race,

Alejandro Toledo

When we opened the closet to see grandmother's jewels, we found that everything had been stolen,

We will make sure that all of our marketing spend is very closely measured.

We've played some tough, close games lately and when teams make a run at us, we tend to get down on ourselves. I wanted us to focus, reach within ourselves and fight for the win.

We've played so many close games all year long, and we've won most of them. We've just been through these situations too much. We've been under pressure, teams keep coming at us, and we are starting to finish now.

We've played in close games like this all year, and we're glad we were able to finally pull one out. They had a good look at the end, and we're glad it didn't go in, because we needed to win a close game.

We've played in a lot of close games this year, but we've lost a lot of them. We need some guys to step up in leadership roles so we can win these close games.

We've played a lot of close games with these guys all year. And we seem to have come out on top in most of them.