Famous Quotes & Sayings

What has kept it current all these years is that it's so true to family relationships and the way we hurt the people who are closest to us.

We're getting fantastic response on our Web site, e-mails from all over the U.S. in places that definitely don't have curling clubs. We have piles of them that are actually looking for the closest curling club because they're so intrigued by watching everything.

Anton Corbijn

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Kris Kristofferson

The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Jason Mraz

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Jason Mraz

My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Todd Rundgren

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality of a concert into more of a lifestyle thing.

This program allows states' leaders -- who are closest to the people -- to decide exactly how this grant money should be spent.

Gioconda Belli

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

The reality is that most of Microsoft's partners are also its closest competitors, but that's nothing new,

Prince Charles

We shall not forget you, and we shall watch with the closest interest as you embark on this new era of your remarkable history.

Les Brown

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

sends letters once a week to his closest family members and he can get letters regularly.

Brooke Shields

I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

Neill Blomkamp

If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.

Andrea Barrett

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.

Laura Riding

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

Noah Baumbach

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

Nastassja Kinski

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

Ellen Greene

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

One of my goals is to get the Battlefield promotion, ... So it is on my mind, but I'm trying not to dwell on it. This is definitely the closest I've been since I got my second win.

Jim Haslett

Obviously, the Giants game is not going to be here. We're really not going to play a home game anywhere, but this would be the closest thing,

Ann Robinson

Fremont County and Hot Springs County are the ones that are closest right now to their goals,

I don't think anybody, even Diana's closest friends ... would regard what happened ... after the crash as anything other than a hysterical reaction. It was way, way over the top.

Valerie Steele

I expect the closest she got was something like Venice.

Jim Haslett

I give a lot of credit to our players. This is the closest group of players I have ever been with.

Namie Amuro

I feel like with Suite Chic, I was able to show a lot of different things, and also that I got the closest to the kind of thing I want to be doing.

Carlos Lee

I didn't get to play in the Olympics so this is the closest I can get. There's a lot of pride playing for your country.

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

Steve Whitmire

The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.

Christopher Lee

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.