Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Giles

We're slowly closing this thing out, but it hasn't been easy,

We knew they had several (options). We did a really nice job of getting out on (Murphy) and closing her out. She was off-balance.

We're shifting our energy to focus on getting ready for this move but our doors are not closing at all.

We're not closing the door to looking at the insurance-based model for one part or for several parts of the health-care system,

Letting teams back into games that we should be closing out has nothing to do with who we are playing and the level of competition. Every game we should be trying to improve and do what we do better whether we are playing Clovis West or Fresno High.

Kathleen Sebelius

While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans.

She said that the state of Michigan would pay for all of our closing costs and five percent down." ()

Some companies were just assigning people a closing date.

We are temporarily suspending operations. I wouldn't characterize what we are doing as closing permanently.

Robert Greenblatt

We're having productive conversations with Twentieth, but we're a step shy of closing a deal.

We're gonna have to work real hard starting Monday. We really have to improve every week. I thought we made some improvements this week; a lot of things we did well, a lot of things we didn't do well. We're going to try to keep closing that gap.

We've been in that situation before and we haven't done a great job of closing out games. It was a tough shot. When it comes down to the playoffs and two teams have equal talent, a lot of it's luck.

Jeremy Grantham

The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.

Losing 30,000 jobs, closing 14 plants, has enormous consequences not just for the union, but for the future of their members. It is a major blow.

We're not going in there with any preconceived notions. We want to see him closing ground and galloping out good. Of course, we want to win it. Who doesn't? But you know at this point we're playing a little catch-up, so we want to see a good, strong race from him, take into consideration what Robby has to say after the fact, and go from there. We're going into this race very open-minded.

Ben Huh

I know a lot of people love applications on their phone, but I'm like, 'Yeah, I understand the nice experience, but there's something about it that doesn't flow well.' Opening an app, closing it, moving to something else. There's something about the open web that's very free flowing.

We are not in anything that I can recognize as a closing zone.

We are not closing because it is a financial disaster. We're making money.

Jerry Jones

We're not going to force people not to come here. They're going to come here whether we like it or not. They're going to have an impact on our infrastructure whether we like it or not. We have no way of closing our borders.

The rats know we are closing in on them,

We do feel that the competition is closing in on us but we had a pretty dominant run in the spring and I think there's room for improvement. We're going to start with the same set-up we used in June and then try some new things to see what works best. We need to get the momentum back that we had in the first half of the year and this could be the race to do it.

(The demand for) closing of the mine is misled.

We have lots of exposed mud flats, ... but we will be closing the dam to flood those flats and facilitate boating a little more for fall recreation.

One of the catalysts for the European moves is not only recent poor profitability but also rising fiber prices. They're closing the underperforming assets.

My first preference would be to test the market, without closing the door on coming back. I feel I have earned the opportunity to explore my options.

Jean Killy

Of course, not everything is finished yet and the IOC will continue to worry until after the closing ceremony, just as we do at every Olympic Games. The remaining test events will give the games organizers vital opportunities to further improve on plans that have been drawn up for the venues now being completed.

One was detained yesterday and the other two on Monday. I think we are closing in on them, we are closing in on the kidnappers.

Khloe Kardashian

When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.

Jane Smiley

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

But we just didn't do a good job closing games out. That's disappointing. Part of it is we're young. We're inexperienced. We might tighten up. I'm not sure.

More and more of the job losses are in industries that are effectively closing down domestically. This has been a gradual process since the 1950s, but it seems to have accelerated.

May be the San Martin mine might be closing a year earlier than expected. It's a modest negative.

Bill Gates

Now the growth in the last year in Europe was very rapid and so you can say the gap is closing a bit. But I think it's still an issue of great concern. A lot of kids graduate from college in Europe without having the in-depth exposure that most U.S. students receive. So there's work to be done.