Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were so close in some of those games that we easily could have been 17-3 at the end of the season or 18-2.

We were so close but still he managed to get away.

Sarah Clarke

Typically, people who are farther away from the corridor are going to see it as an enhancement because it will help them get to and from work. The people who are going to be closer to it, probably won't like it as much.

Bronson Arroyo

Today was as close as I'm going to get to a regular season game in spring training. It was in front of a crowd that I enjoy playing in front of.

We don't know exactly what the storm is going to look like. But we're going to keep a close watch for any spots that might be in danger.

Pat Buchanan

We worked very closely with the nominating committee ... We followed exactly their instructions,

We worked very closely with major foundries in Taiwan and the U.S. to identify their most important, next-generation modeling requirements. These customers told us that process characterization is on the critical path to their success. Today's announcement emphasizes our significant and ongoing investment in device modeling. And what's really exciting is that these customers are responding by standardizing on our flow.

We worked through the government scandals and closed a few contracts in the fourth quarter of 2004.

We worked hard every day and during every practice to get back here. We didn't just want to get back and get close and lose. We had it working this year, we prepared a little different and we were ready.

We work closely with the police department. We're an extra set of eyes and ears for them.

We work closely with our students to place them where they live or work.

We won't sit down with the Prime Minister's office until much closer to the day to look at the young rookies. The Prime Minister has a very hands-on role in this too,

Brad Boyes

We won the second quarter, and then when we won the third I thought we could close the deal. But near the end of the fourth we got made some poor decisions offensively.

We want to keep it as rustic and close to nature as we can.

Larry Davis

We'll see how he feels and see what we can do Friday. Tomorrow is a no-throw day. This was a very happy day though. He's close to his normal velocity, and we went out with the idea he would throw at a level where he felt comfortable.

We didn't steal this, we earned it. We knew (Grafton) had improved, so a closer game wasn't all that surprising.

Jane Anderson

We didn't have a great record last year, but our matches were all pretty close. We just didn't close out very well. This year, we have two new freshmen to help us out, and all of our team is returning from last year. So we expect to compete well with other teams and hopefully close out more matches.

We are no longer going to throw the doors open at 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. and close it at dusk, it will actually be staffed and we are going to be conducting more of a recreational program. We are feeling pretty confident through the dual usage and the monitoring we can actually increase use at that park.

Robert Zubrin

We are much closer today to being able to send humans to Mars than we were to being able to send men to the moon in 1961, and we were there eight years later. Given the will, we could have humans on Mars within a decade.

We are moving our distribution network closer to our clients,

We are moving all that debris so we don't have anything falling on cars, so we will hold that closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the next couple of days until we are sure motorists can move safely.

Siri Hustvedt

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

Rick Allen

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

Sania Mirza

No tennis player is perfect. Even if you're world #1, I don't think, you still have things to improve on, and I'm not even close to that. So I am going to have weaknesses in my game; I am going to have strengths in my game, but I still have time to develop a lot of things, hopefully, and we'll see how it goes.

Sonu Nigam

From childhood, I have been more of a musician than a singer. People close to me know how much effort I put into practising. Even when I am travelling, I have my tanpura on my iPhone.

Rand Paul

The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.

Ranbir Kapoor

I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.

The defense didn't close out like we should have. Our offense execution wasn't there and we shot poorly. ? The right people need to take the right shots. We had some poor shot selection (during High Point's 15-0 run).

The decision to close the brewery was a tough one psychologically, but financially it was really easy to make.

The demands on the network are growing faster than the I.T. staff, creating an operational gap between what enterprises want to do with their networks and what they are able to do. By investing in higher levels of network intelligence, they can close that gap.

Margaret Atwood

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Trevor's match was an outstanding match. He lost to that kid in the Classic, and we thought it was a fluke. We didn't think it should have been as close as it was. ... I think he really showed here that he's a better wrestler than Tyler Sloan. ... Typically, if you get seeded No. 1 (at districts), it makes districts a little easier.

Dusty Baker

Yeah, I've got a problem with it, but it's modern baseball. On a close play, you're going to do what's most natural to you. ... There's too many things that you can hurt ? fingers, wrist, elbow, shoulders. There's a lot of things that can get stepped on. There's a lot of things that can happen on a head-first play.