Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Jones

I think she settled into the game. She relaxed a little bit. She took better shots going to the basket. She settled for some 8-10-footers in the first half, shooting over the big girl. In the second half, she was getting closer to the basket.

William T. Vollmann

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

Reggie Jackson

I think he's closer to 100 than he is 90.

It'd be closer to me, so you know I'd like it.

I think Josh would have cruised if he would have won that first set up 4-1. But that's why you play these matches. It doesn't get any closer than this.

I thought Nate settled in after that goal and was OK. But it's another one of those games that you walk away from and the scoreboard says 4-0, and you know it's closer than that. It's been the story of our season.

I thought it was a little closer than the final score indicated. We just have to make a few adjustments and hopefully the second time around it will be a little closer.

Bobby Cox

I thought he was hitting closer to .300. He's had a lot of big hits.

I think they re going to have to offer a stipend to help their employees with the costs so much for gas. They are going to have to encourage use of mass transportation or look for workers that are closer in.

Ruby Walsh

Jumping the last, I thought I might stay on to be fourth. I knew we would get closer but I didn't think we were going to get there and I only thought we had won when the judge called No.10.

Brandon Evans

It has been an interesting journey when you look at it like that. But this has been our goal since the beginning, and I think everything that's happened has just helped draw us closer together and made us more determined.

I think Utah State is a better team than Montana was. They're closer to what Pacific was.

John Cole

I think talking with the kids in practice, this is probably more of a rivalry than Herkimer. We're closer to Frankfort than Herkimer and the kids have a lot of friends that go to school and live in Frankfort.

It is likely that the investment-to-GDP ratio for 2004 will be revised down closer to 40 percent.

Barry Trotz

It is hard, even as a coach, to say who's going to win it. There's so many teams that are a lot closer than you think. The point totals, disregard them. It's what teams are playing well, what teams aren't.

I think we're going to see a very choppy market for the next few weeks, as we get closer to the election, unless oil prices move sharply one way or the other.

Judd Gregg

Like objects in the rear-view mirror, the impact of Social Security's looming crisis is closer than it appears.

Like most mountains when you get closer to the top it gets a little steeper and a little tougher.

Our mobile customer numbers showed strong growth, despite the market getting closer to saturation and experiencing strong price competition with capped plans.

We were in a good position going into the ninth, and then we had our closer out there.

We'll see if we can be closer to the DPRK.

Richard Preston

The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainforest valleys of the North Coast, closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of trees, the blue whales of the plant kingdom.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.

Simon Gagne

We're still in first. We lost a couple games recently and they won their games so they got closer to us. It's going to be a big game. We want to stay at the top.

We're running out of time babeThe dream will come no closer by itselfWe got to run after it now....

Joe Sakic

We're right there with everybody else. The division's tight. We were hoping to get closer to Calgary (on Sunday), but it didn't work out. Guys have worked hard all year and we're right in it.

Paul Wilson

Yeah, it's tough. I feel like I'm letting them down every day I'm not out there and they (team) are getting closer to leaving. But if I start doing stupid stuff, like pushing myself too hard, it could cost me more time. So it's a fine line.

We needed Robby to fill that starter role. Whether he stays in it or not ... he's such a valuable closer for us, also. He did a great job.

Marvin Sapp

Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.

Mark Zandi

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.

Phil Everly

Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love.

We have a men's shelter with 38 beds, which is much closer to full than we normally would be at this time.

We know the day is drawing closer when the community of freedom will once more encompass the pearl of the Antilles, and the hemisphere of the American democracies will be complete,