Famous Quotes & Sayings

Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality.

Andrew Mitchell

Shareholders will not be happy with anything close to the current offer.

Scott found a Superfund site vacant for many years and not on the tax rolls. It matched all our criteria. It's close to transmission lines and highways.

Settle entered in a really tough spot. Closer is a tough job; you're either the hero or the goat, no in-between. He did a good job in that situation.

Sears has had a very different problem from Kmart, ... Our service and products are as good as our competitors but they're not where our customers are. This now gives us the opportunity to grow off-mall locations closer to the customer.

sends letters once a week to his closest family members and he can get letters regularly.

John Malkovich

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

So few people have seen a kangaroo up close or in the wild and the more we worked with them, the more fascinated we became,

Michael Hitchcock

So it's sand in the hour glass now. And the closer it gets, the better it is for us.

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

She teetered really, really, really close to just being disrespected everywhere. But so did Lou Gerstner in his early days at IBM. If she's successful, it's a new model.

She was very close to hitting that one. She was feeling it at that point.

She was really close to all the kids. She was in the gym on Monday. She was a great kid and such a hard worker. She was always the first one in the gym. She was really smart and ran my scout team. She was just an incredible person. We're really going to miss her.

She was like a mother to me, too. I was pretty close to her.

She went to the doctor today, and he said it was two weeks before she could start jogging. Alicia and Sara are really close to my heart because I've coached them since the sixth grade. I was their grade school coach.

E. O. Wilson

She's right there, right there with it. Seeing death, up close and personal.

She's really stepped her game up this year. She's a really good player and there's always been a close competition between her and us because we're so familiar with one another." ()

She's really close to her family which is awesome. She always brags about her little sister and I love that about her.

She's been in OK condition, and she's getting closer to race form. She was running great times last year.

She's got a great leg. She had a lot of opportunities, and they were all so close and right on.

We are getting there. And I guarantee you there's gonna be a time when we can get our pictures up on the wall right there for having a No. 1 defense. It just isn't going to happen now. I'm not here because they were close to that.

We are getting closer to the 50-50 ratio in Beijing.

We are getting closer every day, we really are. We're going to need every day because we have a ways to go, but I am seeing some signs that they are starting to think like one. They've made strides the last few days and they are starting to take a lot of pride in what they do, so we're on our way.

Dan Rooney

What made him was his strength. This was a time players didn't have strength. I remember we were playing the Giants at Forbes Field one time and it was a very close game, and they were moving the ball. He sacked the quarterback three times in a row.

What's remarkable is how little the statement changed. The one thing that is important is that the Fed has always, over the past few years, tipped its hand. But they have still not indicated that they are close to ending their tightening.

David Robertson

We're going to have it closed for at least this week and into the weekend.

We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for a state response.

We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear.

We're moving in the right direction, and we're closer to where we need to be.

Yes, because I still can close games and we have a closer. I still can close games, and that's what I want. I hope they trade me.

With the help of users, we've closed a lot of the redundant roads in the area.

Gene Luen Yang

With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.

We're going to come back. It's one thing to grow, but we have to take a close look at not growing too fast so we can provide the proper services.