Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Tressel

I was disappointed we didn't get it closer for the field goal if we weren't going to score a touchdown,

I thought we did a lot of good things. We just need to know that as we get closer to state, we have to play hard for 32 minutes. Tonight, 24 (minutes) wasn't good enough.

Bill Watterson

Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all.

Given the steady diet of 'measured' rate hikes the Fed has provided in the past year and a half, many of you may be wondering when enough is enough. Let me first respond by saying, the closer we get, the less explicit we can be on that point; it's my personal opinion that as policymakers we should resist the temptation to say more than we know at any given time.

If this were a 10 million share deal you'd see it jump all over the place, even in this market. With a deal of this size, pricing is much closer to fair market.

Bobby Cox

He's doing really well taking over the closer role right now.

The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.

Bill Bradley

Under his leadership, we will come closer to solving the problems I mentioned earlier, and under the leadership of George W. Bush, it is not even close,

Nick Nolte

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

Kelly Corrigan

The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.

Jalal Talabani

Huge efforts were exerted, and principal issues have been settled, but this crucial project needs closer examination, and therefore, more time,

He was enthusiastic and wanted to see if he could pitch. But as you get closer reality sets in. He realized it was questionable that he comfortably compete and comfortably be Eric Gagne.

He was in control of that real well. He putted a lot better on the second day because he was a lot closer to the pins.

Dario Franchitti

I actually thought it was closer than that. It was close enough.

I also think she could be closer in the run because of the blinkers.

Paul Davis

I was State everything ? football, basketball. The older I got, and the closer I got to committing, I really took a hard interest in it.

Joel Edgerton

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

Morgan Saylor

I grew up kind of in the country, in western Georgia. And then I moved a lot closer to Atlanta, and I started doing plays, and when I started doing film, I think I really started to love it.

If they were the only bidder, (the bid) probably would have been closer to 175 (dollars per share), but they really stepped up to the plate and said go home (to potential rival bidders).

If we cut down on half of those rebounds, it could have been a closer game.

He's coming closer and closer. He's still a baby, but there is a big race coming from him. But Saturday, I don't know.

Brad Faxon

He's closer to six. I'm closer to four.

He has a way of speaking that is closer to the people. He comes from the (political) left, and there is the perception that he would do more for those who are the ones who leave.

He is excited about it. The thing that drew him to it the most was that it was closer to home. He wanted to be where we would be able to come and see his games.

Orrin Hatch

He got John moved to Fort Dix, closer to his mom and friends in New York. Orrin got John a guitar, too.

Rick Carlisle

He may have moved his schedule up because of what happened in Memphis last night. We knew he was getting closer and closer. I thought it could be this week some time.

He'll go into spring training as the closer and he'll have every opportunity to be the closer for 2006.

Ned Yost

He needs an inning badly. It doesn't help matters for any closer to go that long without pitching.

We can look to the end of rate increases as they've intimated that there may not be very many more. The market's been looking for signs that we may be closer to the end.

This was one of the closer ones we've seen. But we were expecting that. Eaton Rapids has a lot of good, young kids.

This wasn't like the San Jacinto game. We were closer there. We just need to do a better job of offensive execution.

We expect to see sales to our western customers increase. We'll be closer to the customer, which means they should get their orders quicker.

Josh Groban

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.