Famous Quotes & Sayings

That was probably as close a group as we've had since I've been here.

She's closer to me than my sisters, ... We've been through a lot together.

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.

When the (Phoenix) steel company closed 30 years ago, no one realized in 10 years, we would all be jobless and our downtown would be in ruins.

We want to be close to our customers. They're like family to us.

We want to acknowledge the good deeds of Good Samaritans -- from professional rescue workers to passersby and everyday people -- who helped save the lives of people very close to us.

The fact that we got so close is something I am immensely proud of - it is pretty ruddy good from where we started from.

Roy Williams

The fact that the score was close is not something you worry about. You just have to play.

The fact that drivers don't get paid if they don't race, consumers relate to that. Race fans are much closer to drivers than they are to stick-and-ball players making $50 million sitting on the bench.

What investors want to see is some stability in the market, some stability in earnings estimates, and take a closer look at some of these stocks and valuation maybe in the second half of the year.

The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

What we've done is we've closed the units to outside visitors in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.

Brian Williams

What we saw has come as close to indescribable as any journalist will ever come,

Rick Allen

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

Sania Mirza

No tennis player is perfect. Even if you're world #1, I don't think, you still have things to improve on, and I'm not even close to that. So I am going to have weaknesses in my game; I am going to have strengths in my game, but I still have time to develop a lot of things, hopefully, and we'll see how it goes.

Sonu Nigam

From childhood, I have been more of a musician than a singer. People close to me know how much effort I put into practising. Even when I am travelling, I have my tanpura on my iPhone.

Rand Paul

The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.

Ranbir Kapoor

I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.

The defense didn't close out like we should have. Our offense execution wasn't there and we shot poorly. ? The right people need to take the right shots. We had some poor shot selection (during High Point's 15-0 run).

The decision to close the brewery was a tough one psychologically, but financially it was really easy to make.

The demands on the network are growing faster than the I.T. staff, creating an operational gap between what enterprises want to do with their networks and what they are able to do. By investing in higher levels of network intelligence, they can close that gap.

We stepped up our defense and stopped fouling. We've been a little sluggish, but we played a lot better. The second half of this game prepares us real well. It prepares us for close situations.

We stay pretty close to home now. No more shooting acts, or Wild West shows up north like we used to. I'm more of a historian now.

We stayed in that offensive muck that we had in the second quarter. The difference was that we stayed close in the first half by playing good defense and rebounding well.

We start from eighth place in the constructors' championship, any improvement is satisfying and we have to make as big a step as we can. I don't promise you podium finishes for this year or even victories but we will make our mark and put everything in place to close the gap to the top teams and get there.

We started with some givens at the time. For example, one of those was that we didn't want to close a school. Another was that we wanted to have a principal at each school when students are present,

George Hickenlooper

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.

Walter Salles

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

Athol Fugard

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.