Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Tom Jenkins

I've been playing some good golf for the last month and a half. I knew I was coming close to winning. My goal now is to win twice in a year, I've never done that.

Jason McCartney

I've been close a number of times here - to get so close and... I guess I was watching the wrong guy for the sprint. It was great riding with John. I wish it could have been just me and him for the sprint. I'm sorry I let the team down today - I know it's a big race for them. I'll just keep coming back next year.

Vicente Fox

They all died in the line of duty, ... They are heroes ... I have lost not just a co-worker, but a close friend, Ramon.

Robert Eenhoorn

The world has recognized that we are competitive. It used to be, how much are we going to lose by? Then we'd try to close that gap during the game. Now, when we step on the world stage, we expect to win.

Stanley Brand

These are staggering numbers, even by Washington standards. The big firms do very, very well, but they don't come close to these kinds of numbers.

Tim Collins

The river gauges are actually showing a recede. They're actually going down some from where they were yesterday. But they'll start going back up tonight and tomorrow. We'll start getting back close to where we were over the weekend.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Ben Jonson

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Brian Cresta

And we see 50 to 80 percent walk out with a peace of mind with the drug benefit.

Alan Hovhaness

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

Alex Morrison

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Bill Bennett

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Mads Mikkelsen

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Kristen Meyer

They have to have an appropriate way of getting their trash picked up and removed from the facility.

David Alpay

I've just written this six-part sketch comedy series, which I've never done before. And I don't know how to pitch it. Am I supposed to just pick up a camera and put stuff on YouTube? Is that how it works?

Jeff Thomas

Bellingham's pretty tough. They're solid all the way through. They don't seem to have any weak spots.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Tony Hsieh

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Erin Morgenstern

To be rather than to seem.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Peter Rosenfeld

We do everything we can to stand by suppliers who are financially challenged.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Brodie Croyle

Don't get used to that. I want to stay back there and throw it if I can.

Suzanne Collins

Stay with me. Always.

Oscar Wilde

The best revenge is to live well.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

Dick Bartholdi

We had a lot of heart. And that's what enabled us to stay with them.

Dick Umile

I think if we all stay healthy, we'll all keep going.

Juan Rincon

I thought I would never see him again, ... We have been able to stay together through baseball.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Ronald Reagan

Trees cause pollution.

Sri Chinmoy

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.

Steven Wright

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me -- and I didn't hear it.

Spike Milligan

On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! And the Monkeys all say Boo! Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang! And you just cant catch em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning! Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang! What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!

Steven Morrissey

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

Robert Browning

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.