Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luanne Rice

I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert, known for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in real life, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare.

Khaled Hosseini

I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.

The proposal to close failing schools after a year is unrealistic, inappropriate and unhelpful.

Ralph Miller

The project would cost close to $500 million to put into place. We are trying to overcome all the obstacles and we are in the planning stages.

Oprah Winfrey

Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Omar Khayyam

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Tim Mason has been close to the helm for 10 years so he's got to know something.

Tour companies and Thai nationals who want to travel to Nepal (should) increase vigilance and closely monitor the political situation.

Trading is rather quiet this week because of Columbus Day and the Jewish holidays. You often see big swings in prices when the volume is low. Also, gasoline is close to $1.80, which is probably a little overboard in spite of the fall in demand.

Toys 'R' Us will close some of its stores but it's not going away, ... You can't lose sight of how the consumer perceives this retailer. The company has taken a knock but consumers still see it as a powerful brand.

Dwane Casey

You lose that many close games, it will shake your confidence.

Today we are no closer (to an agreement). What we're dealing with here is an election campaign.

Robert Moore

to be as close to those standards as humanly possible.

Steven Pinker

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

Salman Khan

I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.

Ansel Elgort

I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.

Alex Steffen

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

Alexander Payne

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

Ban Ki-moon

When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

Ban Ki-moon

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Kurt Vonnegut

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Kelly Ripa

When I get close to crossing that line or when I go over it, I get 'the look' from Regis,

We have looked at a lot of players on trial an it is our intention to sign a new forward before the close of the transfer window.

We have linked this gastrointestinal outbreak to the Sprayground attraction, and it has been closed down for the year.

We have let a few close ones slip us by in recent weeks and I though we closely that game out pretty strongly.

Isa Gambar

We have learned many important lessons from our Georgian colleagues and our Ukrainian colleagues. We are studying very closely their method for coming to power peacefully, and trying to follow their example.

Vladimir Kramnik

You know, our ratings after this match will be very close - I think I can also become the world number one in the not too distant future. However, I'm sure that Garry will also have something to say about this!

Ira Sachs

I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

Ira Glass

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

Ira Glass

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

Ira Glass

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.