Famous Quotes & Sayings

The proposal to close failing schools after a year is unrealistic, inappropriate and unhelpful.

Ralph Miller

The project would cost close to $500 million to put into place. We are trying to overcome all the obstacles and we are in the planning stages.

Oprah Winfrey

Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Omar Khayyam

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Tim Mason has been close to the helm for 10 years so he's got to know something.

Tour companies and Thai nationals who want to travel to Nepal (should) increase vigilance and closely monitor the political situation.

Trading is rather quiet this week because of Columbus Day and the Jewish holidays. You often see big swings in prices when the volume is low. Also, gasoline is close to $1.80, which is probably a little overboard in spite of the fall in demand.

Toys 'R' Us will close some of its stores but it's not going away, ... You can't lose sight of how the consumer perceives this retailer. The company has taken a knock but consumers still see it as a powerful brand.

Dwane Casey

You lose that many close games, it will shake your confidence.

Today we are no closer (to an agreement). What we're dealing with here is an election campaign.

Robert Moore

to be as close to those standards as humanly possible.

Steven Pinker

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

Salman Khan

I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.

Toni Collette

We grew closer than actors usually do with co-stars - at least female co-stars.

We go twice a day about two hours each practice. They (practices) are not spread out too much, so sometimes people will sleep in the lounge, wanting to stay close and not have to walk all the way home and come back.

We can definitely execute better than what we've done. I think we're still inching closer to where we want to be.

Ashley Monroe

I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.

We should win at least seven games. There were a couple close game we could have one.

We shoot 150 a week. We have to, I was tired of losing close games because of foul shooting.

Wal-Mart has a tremendous effect on the market. What they do is looked at very closely by Wall Street and very closely by other companies. I suspect we'll see other companies follow their lead.

Wall Street has come pretty close to being an around-the-clock enterprise anyway.

A. J. Cook

I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

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.

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.

The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

The secondary is a very tight unit. We just have fun out there together, that's what we've decided to do. I think it's one of the closest units on the team.