Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Tedford

Each game we learn new things. By no means did we come close to our potential tonight.

due to the recent hurricane, Preservation Hall will be closed indefinitely.

Early in the season when we were really successful, we were closing out halves. That's something that we haven't done lately, and tonight we didn't close out the half. I think having that momentum going into the locker room probably helped them.

Arlen Specter

especially in light of your close relationship with the president and the key positions you have held in the White House.

Especially early in the season, we were in so many close one-run and two-run games, so it's nice to finally get a few things to go our way.

Erosion was endangering the road, but it's not collapsing or anything like that. Mainly the road was closed for the safety of the workers.

Tarja Halonen

Even during difficult times, he contributed to positive developments in his own country as in the other Baltic states and paved the way for them to come closer to Europe.

Olli Rehn

During the negotiations we will continue to monitor progress closely and the European Commission will not hesitate to recommend the suspension of negotiations if the efforts

Joffrey Lupul

Five out of eight points is pretty good. Any time you can go on the road and close some ground is pretty good.

Ted Kaczynski

Fitch is as improved as you want to see and a very good team. They had won four in a row. It was a close game and we played okay. We had to be perfect down the stretch and we're not good enough to be perfect.

Fiscal year 2007 starts in July, so we're closer than you think.

Every time (we play them) it's always close no matter what they have, no matter what we have.

Every time we got something going, we would make a youthful mistake. We were two inches close from making a big play. We are going to go back, correct everything and get ready for Sacred Heart.

Every time we go to a meet we're struggling for second or third place. We haven't hit second yet. We were so close at Vinton County.

Everything we do is perfect. And if it is not perfect, it is as close to perfect as possible.

Every year we come up here, it's always close games --sometimes overtime, one or two points. This might be one of the largest margins.

Mike Katz

There's primarily dance music but also slow music or laments. This music is a very close cousin of Irish music. It has lots of energy and is very expressive.

The response we got from our colleagues today suggests that we are pretty close to where they wanted us to be.

Antawn Jamison

There's only so many times you can say, 'This is the time to get things rolling. With me, I'm pretty much fed up as far as saying that. Eventually we have to pull it together. It's really no more excuses, the way we've been playing, not finding a way to win games, losing close games. It's pretty much put your money where your mouth is and find a way to do it.

There was a little fool's gold there. I felt like the game was a lot closer than an 11-point lead. We had the Cooper kid make some shots.

Avery Johnson

There was a four- or five-day process when they were on their rooftops, sleeping on roofs and in attics trying to escape, ... Once it hit, you don't have any communication no cellphone, no e-mail, anything with your family. It took five or six days just to find some of my close family. They're OK right now, and we're grateful. Now it's a matter of helping people who are less fortunate than my family.

Charlie Manuel

There?s still time. If (the Astros) win 12 straight games (to close the season), then they damn sure deserve it.

There's so much parity in the U.P. that all of our games might be as close as this one.

There's a gradual feeling that the ECB is closer to raising rates than first thought,

Jay Cutler

There's a fine line between winning and losing, and you can really get lost in it. But with the losing we've been through in the last three years and all the times we've been in close games, it makes it so much sweeter now.

John Simm

There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.

There's no question we needed to close the gap tonight.

There's no surprise in the numbers coming so close to the profit warnings. The story here is the company's insistence it can pay a dividend.

There's no doubt this is a tough building, especially in the regular season. Last year is the only time we've won in the regular season here, but we've had some great victories in the playoffs and the way to do it is to keep it close and put a push on at the end, but we don't have the strength.

There's nobody close to that Texas streak. And if not for one lost year there, Ohio State would have a perfect record, too.

Harvey Smith

There's no perfect site, but you try to get close to one.

There's more to be feared from closed minds than from closed doors

There's more and more pressure on campground owners to sell to developers. It's getting harder to find a campground close by. The closest campground to Tampa is about 10 miles outside of town.