Famous Quotes & Sayings

I just tried to get up on him and I knew he was going to go for the three. I just wanted to make it tough for him and I think I got a little too close and him being Paul Pierce, he is going to get that call.

I just thought that there was that point there (when) we closed it out at 42-42 where they just made more plays than we did.

I really thought we had created some reasonable doubt. ... I thought at the very least that the state had not come close to even proving premeditation.

Steve Young

I really didn't want to have to go to a team where I was going to have to go through losing. I wanted to go on a team where everyone was pumped about what they were doing. They're only on the rise, so I figured, they're close to home, I like the coaches, it's location. It fits me.

I really want to make this push to make the playoffs. All I was thinking about was getting a win and pushing this team closer to playoffs.

I really wanted to come to U of A. It was really a close decision. The only deciding factor was staying close to home, but if U of A were in L.A., I'd have been there.

Justin Rose

I reckon 66 might be a good number. The scores were wild. Sunday is a little different deal. There's enough guys close to the lead that somebody is going to go low tomorrow.

I receive a message from one of my closest friends in China, working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that the government has sent -- one month ago -- a three-member team to conduct an operation called 'decapitation strike',

Rinko Kikuchi

I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.

Troy Percival

I'll say this. Any team that wins using a closer by committee better have a fantastic offense.

Adelaide Clemens

I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.

Robinson Cano

I know he throws a fastball, and for the first time I just said I was looking for the fastball. I was just trying to hit anything close to the plate.

I know Grady is excited about coaching close to his hometown. We wish him well, and we'll fill the opening as soon as we can.

Ted Sundquist

I know it's even more exciting for him because he knows what football means to the area, and he knows what it means to try to put together a championship team for Houston. Just think about it: Gary's from Houston. He loves the city. He grew up there, played there and went to college close by, and he understands what that means to the fans.

Clearly, we need a more efficient needs shelter for Jackson County. We as a hospital system will work closely with the Red Cross and other appropriate entities to help improve these conditions.

Zack Greinke

Cleveland's getting close to the White Sox, so they're playing for a lot. You could see how pumped they were.

Close you eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like home.

Richard Ryan

Close To You hates this ground. He's been murdering older horses at home. He may go for the Dewhurst but he'll hopefully line up for the 2,000 Guineas next year.

close to his heart. Let's just say we had a good relationship.

Eve Ensler

closest to the core contaminated. They live near the reactor; their contamination is the most potent and consuming. As you get further away from the reactor, women are contaminated but not to the degree.

Maxwell Maltz

Close scrutiny will show that most ''crisis situations'' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Scott Storch

Closer to Christmastime, you guys will hear something hot. We have some cool stuff planned.

Closers all of a sudden create themselves. Look at Todd Jones. He was a better closer last year than he was before.

Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

close on everything: on the settlements, on the borders, on the refugees, and on Jerusalem.

George H. W. Bush

closely tied to the future of our hemisphere.

Closely approaching Scotland, the northern coast of Ireland in course of time invited Scotch immigration, which formed as it were a Presbyterian Pale.

Chris Bosh

Close game, lost another. It's the same thing. You're not used to it. It's just, you get so close and the outcome stays the same. We just have to overcome a couple of things at the end of the game.

Nancy Pelosi

Closed government is not healthy for a democracy. Yet again, another example of closed government on the part of Republicans.

Close but no cigar. That really just sums up the whole year.

Paul Kelly

Close Australian-Singapore ties are an orthodoxy, yet such ties are not underpinned by sufficient popular consent. And Singapore is about to inflict grave damage on its reputation in this country.

Joseph Story

Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand lucid in order, solid and at hand; spend not your words on trifles but condense; strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense; press to the close with vigor, once begun, and leave - how hard the task

Being a firefighter is as close as you can get to being a modern-day soldier in your home country,