Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Kristofferson

The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Tao Okamoto

I was living in Paris for, like, a year and a half, and I couldn't speak French, so it was just hard to get a baguette or a pastry or whatever. All the stores close at 6 o'clock, and they're not very into hospitality, so it's not a convenient city. It's so pretty, though, but I was raised in Tokyo, so it was hard to understand.

Jack Warner

This will probably be one of our largest squads at an away meet. The meet being so close enables us to get a look at some of the people that didn't go to Georgia.

This was a solid win. In a close game, we did a good job of executing in the last four minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime. All of our shots were within four feet.

This was as close as we have been all year to a full squad, especially on the girls side.

John Thune

This was not a good time to close a number of these installations,

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

Edward Brooke

My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.

Earl Scruggs

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

Enrico Colantoni

I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.

Callie Khouri

Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

Wang Jianlin

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

Jason Mraz

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Jason Mraz

My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Ben Roethlisberger

When you're a quarterback and you're remembering a tackle... I think I turned him enough times that he got close to me and couldn't decide which way to go. I was just hoping I could slow him down.

Gary Sheffield

When you're an everyday player, not playing is very hard. It's worse when the games are close because you can't do anything about it.

When you're 0-10, we only have one place to go and that's up. You have to have some type of motivation to go out and play. We go into every game thinking we can win, man, even though we've had all these close losses.

When I got to the finish line, I saw that nobody was close to me. I was happy for me and for my teammates.

When I left, we got closer. It was kind of... we got much closer after I left. I'm not sure why that was.

Todd Rundgren

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality of a concert into more of a lifestyle thing.

Timothy Noah

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

We won some close ones. They won some close ones. We went back and forth on that. The guys had a little letdown in the last relay.

Tom Armstrong

We won some close games, and we lost some close games in the first half of the season. Right now we've won 9 of our last 10, and I think the closest win was by nine points. (The sophomores) have improved quite a bit, and our team has improved quite a bit.

Dusty Baker

On a close play, you're going to do what feels most natural to you.

On a closely divided court, any new justice can have a significant impact. This term, there will be two.

E. O. Wilson

Somebody close to the President of the United States decided that in order to defend Bush's political agenda, that individual or individuals would violate the national security of the country and expose my wife's name and her profession.

She yelled for her mom and dad. She was really close to her destination, I guess her home at that time.

Nicholas Sparks

Silence is Holy. It draws people closer together. Because those who are only comfortable with each other, can sit without speaking.

She got us started. Without that start, it would have been a closer game.

She deserves it. When you look at her stat line, she plays close to 32 minutes a game. She's an outstanding practice player. She had some opportunities, she got some good looks, and it's the confidence hopefully that's going to get her moving.

She deliberately closed her eyes to the illegal source of those funds.

Rafael Bejarano

She didn't like the dirt in her face and started jumping around. She started to close strongly at the three-eighths pole but then started jumping around again.

She has yet to truly reach close to her potential. I don't even know if she realizes how good she can be.