Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Fossett

When Richard and I jumped out and we're in the water and we're right close to each other, I reached over and shook hands and said, 'We've survived,'

David Rosenberg

With affordability at a 20-year low, we will be keeping a close eye on the inventory numbers in 2006. Demand has rolled over just when we're seeing supply peak. That's a prescription for a price adjustment.

Ron Perlman

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

When looking at what is needed to close out the year, the only needed raise was 2 mills,

Dominik Hasek

Finally we won a close game, it's a great feeling. However, it was frustrating because we gave up two goals sort of on two lucky bounces and then all of a sudden the game was so close.

Few people thought that he would be that explicit. We're getting closer to the end of the Fed interest-rate hikes.

Finding a hotel that's close is where I am right now.

Anton Corbijn

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

Gary Mills

Factory finishes can furnish up to 10 UV- and scratch-resistant layers, and offer a 20-year guarantee that on-site finishers can't get close to.

Josh Smith

Every time it was close like that, Joe stepped up big.

Andre Gide

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds

Alexandra Stoddard

We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we want it to be.

The governor will look closely at whatever comes to his desk. But Congress has put a mandate on the states, and they haven't given the governor very much wiggle room.

The governor's proposal is a generous proposal in context of these times we're in. It's close to what we proposed.

The governor has said he is not satisfied with the temporary housing situation as far as getting the trailers out as fast as we possibly can. But there is no one to blame. The governor wants the trailers to be moved as close to the evacuees' property as possible so people can oversee the rebuilding. There is more involved than just getting a trailer to a site and leaving it there.

The government will work closely with the plans to make sure the states are compensated.

Pritam Chakraborty

I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Richard Marx

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

Richard Lewis

I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.

We have the potential to develop into a really good side and have managed to put ourselves into contention for most of the time. However, we must learn to be far more decisive and to close the door on the opposition when we have the initiative. The Hong Kong Sevens is a massive stage for any Sevens player and our guys will be highly motivated to make an impact.

We have the eyes of the government on us and they are looking closely at what we do.

We were hoping our team would've been a little closer together time-wise. But we're still pleased with their individual results.

We were going to have a knee-jerk negative reaction to the Fed's decision no matter what, with so many different opinions on what should be done, but I think today, it may be that people are looking more closely at the statement and see it as the Fed saying things are slowly going in the right direction.

Phillip Daniels

We were going to get him, but Bubba saved him, so he better thank Bubba for saving him. We were close to the Gatorade cooler, but we weren't able to get him. But I think he should have been dumped. It was a big game for him. You know, getting into the playoffs. But we'll get him at the Super Bowl.

Joan Chen

We were so up high that we were really close to heaven, and that does render greater meaning to life.

We were so close in some of those games that we easily could have been 17-3 at the end of the season or 18-2.

We were so close but still he managed to get away.

Sarah Clarke

Typically, people who are farther away from the corridor are going to see it as an enhancement because it will help them get to and from work. The people who are going to be closer to it, probably won't like it as much.

Bronson Arroyo

Today was as close as I'm going to get to a regular season game in spring training. It was in front of a crowd that I enjoy playing in front of.

Margaret Atwood

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Trevor's match was an outstanding match. He lost to that kid in the Classic, and we thought it was a fluke. We didn't think it should have been as close as it was. ... I think he really showed here that he's a better wrestler than Tyler Sloan. ... Typically, if you get seeded No. 1 (at districts), it makes districts a little easier.