Famous Quotes & Sayings

We took a huge step making it to Boston. We've tried to keep that in the back our minds all season. It's finally here. We can get closer to what we want to do.

We took a different squad (Thursday). We wanted to get a closer look at a few players.

We're one step closer to El Dorado (the site of the state tournament). I can't stress enough how proud I am. They communicated and played defense, and have really come together.

With many predicting a decline in gas prices over coming months, we will hold off on setting the 2006 rate until closer to January.

We take pride in our hands-on involvement in the day-to-day operations of each Sterling Glen residence, and the move to Long Island will provide our executive management team with an even closer proximity to the residences.

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.

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.

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.

I thought there was maybe a half million to a million slides and negatives. As it turned out, there's probably is closer to a million and a half to two million slides and negatives.

I thought that match was closer than the score indicated. But when you get to the state meet, everyone is good.

David Payne

I thought she should have been much closer so I wanted to give her the opportunity to race those fillies and see if she's up to them.

Richard Butler

I think we're getting hot, ... I think we were getting closer and closer.

I think we have some good players, but we have to get closer to our potential.

Tom Green

I think we were just worn out from all the travel. It was an honor for us to be in it, no question about it. There were 100 mid-major programs in the game, and we were the first NEC school to be in it. I was hoping we would play someone a little closer to us.

Corey Brewer

It gets closer every moment. Every minute it gets closer. We're friends for life.

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.

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.

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.'