Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Dawkins

By no means is this locker room downbeat. We understand what we should have done this past Monday. Give them credit for winning the game, but we understand what should've taken place and that shouldn't even have been a close game.

Bill Cowher

By no means is this a team to be written off. If you back a competitor into a corner, they are going to come out fighting. ... It is going to be a close football game. It always is.

By no means are we even close to being finished.

But usually I just spit it out there and it comes out in a way that you've never said it before and you're closer to having it finished or whatever.

Brian Sabean

Hopefully, it won't ruin a friendship. Obviously, he's in hated Dodger blue. I'm sure he'll be having a lot of pasta dinners with Tommy (Lasorda). Levity aside, it is an interesting flip of fate. You guys know how close we are personally, how hard we worked professionally.

Hopefully, it'll pay off this year and hopefully next year, too. We've got some juniors out there who need to be in those close games. We need to learn how to finish them. Every one of these (close games) is a learning experience for all of us, myself included.

Hopefully by Saturday I'll be close to 100 percent and ready to play, or as close to 100 percent as possible.

Jay Rasulo

Hong Kong Disneyland is (our) first theme park in China. It's also the first Disney theme park that's modeled so closely to the first Disneyland in California.

Jim Tressel

He's very passionate about being a great quarterback. And every day he gets closer to it.

He's very forthcoming about closed accounts, but not so much about current assets.

Julie White

He's very close to his dad, his step-dad and his stepmom,

He's trying as hard as he can. He ran a pretty good time today, I think that's pretty close to his best. I'm pleased with that.

Tim Brown

He (the boy) stated to us that they put him in the closet so he wouldn't run around while they were trying to sleep,

Chuck D.

He's working hard and getting closer to (2 minutes).

He threw all his pitches, and it was as close to a normal routine as I have seen.

He (Thomas) started to make a move on me into one, he had such a good run I actually had to close the door on him and hope he wasn't going to turn me around.

He's the only player I trusted. I never had to make a secondary call. We had a lot of interceptions, close to 15, because he put players in the right position.

Generally tracks get faster, temporarily, after they are resurfaced. Then they go back to normal. If there is a problem, we're staying in close touch with Humpy and the people at Lowe's and we'll deal with it.

Gap isn't a growth story anymore. Its new fourth store concept targeting the 35-and-older customer will give it some growth. But essentially the important thing for the retailer to do now is to stay the course, fix the fashion issues, make operational improvements, close underperforming stores, manage inventory and generate cash.

Goodness, no. The closest fragment will be about six million miles away--or twenty-five times farther than the Moon.

Mike Miller

Good teams win close games, so that was good for us.

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

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B. F. Skinner

By using no-bid contracts, we do increase our vulnerability for waste, and that's what we want to take a close look at.

Bryan Adams

Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live?Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?

Katie Douglas

By this time in the season we should be putting together as close to flawless performances as we can. This one was ugly at times.

Tony McCoy

By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent most of our lives together. To give you an example, having spent two decades sitting next to Richard Johnson and seeing him virtually every day, I have probably spent more time with him than I have my family, and he the same.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

But yes, of course, in many other films, there's a part of me that does appear, for example, in Close Up, and A Moment Of Innocence.

Lindsay Davenport

... But I think normally there's a few more closer matches.

But it can't get too close to Jupiter, otherwise it won't have enough fuel to escape the planet's gravitational pull.

But I think this year's team is the closest thing we've had in terms of being a strong team and getting the program back to where it used to be.

But I like that. I like to hit in first to the green and get it close and let them look at that.

Brian Dawkins

But I mean, I felt their pain. How close we were, for that many years, to get to that point, and then lose it? We talked our way to where we wanted to be and we played our way to where we wanted to be. From the year before, we knew where we needed to be to get that next level. Then we got there and we couldn't capitalize.