Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's closer to home, so my family can come see me play.

Larry Noble

It's been growing in recent years as lobbyists have been closer and closer to campaigns.

It was a nine-point game, but it sure felt a lot closer than nine points.

It was kind of hard for us to have Collins in the first game because they have pretty much the same team back from last year so it was easier for them to mesh together. I think we have gotten a lot closer over the last few games, so it will be interesting the next time we play them.

It was nice because it got us closer to tying the game,

Kim Clijsters

It's going to be a tough match tomorrow, Amelie is playing great. It's getting closer towards the end so if I win, great, if I lose I get to go home, so that's good, too.

It's going to help us in the long run to have a number of players with experience. They know what it takes to step up in closer matches.

Ron Wilson

It's going to get harder. We'll play a team, and it's going to be one step closer to the Cup. It's going to get harder. We're going to need huge contributions from everybody.

It's getting closer to the S&P 500. It's a sign that in this economy, you can't ignore technology.

It's getting closer and closer to the point where they will be finally declared illegal to own,

It's hard to judge just yet how well Oracle has done this without taking a closer look, but at least it suggests that they understand the problem.

It's been a very undecided market. When the opened, it entered a slightly softer period, which was nothing more than a result of profit taking after Friday's enthusiastic buying. After that it turned positive as it got closer to the UK opening.

It's been nice to get on the water and become closer to our racing speed earlier in the season.

Judd Gregg

That's the gross number, of course, ... After taxes, it's closer to $500,000.

That puts him to one step closer for the potential for something catastrophic happening.

Billy Donovan

It's nice to do something that hasn't been done in 21 years. But it does not move you any closer to the goals you have.

Corey Miller

It's nice for shows to have connections with the fans. It makes you closer and more involved in the product you're watching.

It's much closer to our solar system than anything we've found so far.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

At times you can hear voices at night, like mumbling. I would hear like ladies screaming and kids talking like at a distance. I would follow the voice. The closer I would get, it would keep moving. I would walk inside the gin and I'd hear it outside.

Dayton Moore

As players get closer to the majors, we like to increase their versatility and see how they might fit in. For now, though, he's strictly a catcher, and we like his development there.

That's what we've heard - well over $2 billion, maybe closer to $3 billion.

A little closer this time. Just a little.

Elliott Abrams

The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.

Roy Oswalt

Brad, he's the type of closer that has amnesia, he won't thinking nothing about it next time he gets out there. He'll come out at the end of the next game, and I'm sure he'll be lights-out just like he always is.

Charles Stross

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

Every time in the last couple of weeks that this has looked closer to a resolution, the market has done better.

O. Henry

Billings sucks, dude. It's so far away, and everybody was coming from Missoula anyway, so it made more sense to do something closer to home.

Everything points to a moderation in the economy, which points to the Fed closer to being finished. The front end of the market has some value here.

Ernie Els

For a 7-iron, you never want the ball to be closer to your left heel than just slightly ahead of the mid-point of your stance. That's especially true if you're a tall player, like me.

Football is a good way to move closer together, to show team spirit and fairness.

Kurt Braunohler

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

Igor Stravinsky

It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.