Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Holbrooke

We're still behind. But we picked up some steam and we closed the gap.

When we closed there was a general feeling of shock and dismay. But people will be pleased with what has happened. I'm looking forward to watching this sleeping giant wake up.

Adam Goldberg

I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

We seemed to fix a lot of the things we needed to (Saturday). I was pleased with our effort and the way we closed out the tournament. It's always good to close out a tournament with a win.

To define a miracle as a violation or suspension or overriding of natural laws is already to presuppose what nature is like (namely, that nature is a closed causal nexus governed by inviolable rules). It is also to impose prior limits on divine action.

While we generally don't preannounce our quarterly results, given yesterday's market volatility and given the fact that our Miami corporate office was closed and management was inaccessible because of Hurricane Rita, we felt it prudent to preannounce our third quarter results,

Douglas Brinkley

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.

Larry Wachtel

The Microsoft delay has hurt the Nasdaq and will reverberate throughout all of technology. That will be today's big headline. We closed ragged yesterday, so we're going to have a tired market to start.

These numbers are particularly noteworthy given the dislocation with markets closed to our livestock for a long period of time. Even when we hit a bump, our diverse agriculture enables us to rebound.

Mordechai Vanunu

After that I didn't develop the films. I keep them closed because I knew that if I develop them, someone can report me to the Shin Bet.

It's not a matter of we lack fuel, we just can't get it out of the ground because we lack power, ... Grocery stores are closed because we don't have power. The longer we go without power, the worse the situation gets.

David Sacks

I know when my company has closed a deal and when it hasn't.

Evan Williams

I never closed my practice -ÊI just did not take any new commissions until recently.

It's very rare that an office gets closed down.

I wanted young kids to have the opportunity to idolize pro players the way I idolized the North American Soccer League players, ... I volunteered with the committee in Dallas, and when the committee resigned itself that they couldn't get a team and closed up shop, we went to work and negotiated the contract for the Cotton Bowl. I got the North Texas State Soccer Association to give its support.

It was 55-51 for awhile. We haven't closed games well in the last three or four minutes of the game.

The U.S market closed higher on Thursday and we are following that trend, but I think things will settle down in the new year.

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

We are moving all that debris so we don't have anything falling on cars, so we will hold that closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the next couple of days until we are sure motorists can move safely.

We slowed the game down, got some stops and forced them to take long shots. We got some easy shots and just closed it out.

Laurent Fabius

This is very good news for the Socialists. I think it is important that the Socialist Party closed ranks on a leftist ticket.

They're just two different visions of the Internet. I see the Internet as something that gives people the power, for the first time ever, to have a megaphone. These guys want to make a closed system.

It has definitely gone more upscale in recent years, and some of the smaller family owned places have closed up,

I opened my fist to shake your hand, you closed the door and the golden fence.

Fred Couples

I don't know. I just closed my eyes and hit it and it went in.

I didn't slam it. I simply closed it. It's a new building, sometimes things go wrong.

Jusuf Kalla

Because there is an indication that the avian influenza has spread there, the zoo must be closed to the public temporarily,

I have not talked to a student yet that tells me they want a closed lunch.

In the first half it was a little more wide open. I could get to the rim. In the second half, they closed it off real quick.

In the early 70s a lot of these (sites) were closed by the state and capped.

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.

Nancy Pelosi

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

Because it was closed off, in the summer it would be 18 inches higher than normal. It went into some people's houses.