Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've only lost one close game all year. We're confident that we have a good team. We just need to come out prepared and play well.

We've only got two days left, and it's going to be very close whether or not we're able to do it.

Tyler Christopher

We watched the video of his first heat over and over, ... He was 12 metres back after 300 metres. To close 12 metres over the final 100 ... that is incredible.

Don Thompson

We wanted to get it as close to scale as possible. I did get a lot of the information off the Internet.

We'd close to three and they would go up six. We would cut it to three and they would go up five.

We are expecting a big game on Friday. It's the district final and it's on our field, but we take no one for granted. Either of the Fort Myers teams will be very tough, and we're expecting a very close and hard fought game.

We are excited to close out the first quarter on such a strong note.

We are doing what we can to help people keep close to home that want to stay close to home.

Cindy Sheehan

The president is not going to meet with us, probably. We the people need to influence our congressional representatives and I hear he's pretty close by.

Under the old Soviet system, with closed borders, they didn't have a real problem or issue. Nobody crossed the line under the Soviet system. They knew what would happen. But once they opened the borders, theoretically at least, that all changed.

Two problems that have beset London Underground for years -- poor project management and industrial relations -- have come together to close a whole line.

Two out hits is what you have to do to win close games. Especially in conference.

Two of (the losses), Colorado and Oklahoma State, you expect, but the other four, we were in. After losing the close games, you worry (the team) will get discouraged.

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.

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.