Famous Quotes & Sayings

Every year we come up here, it's always close games --sometimes overtime, one or two points. This might be one of the largest margins.

Mike Katz

There's primarily dance music but also slow music or laments. This music is a very close cousin of Irish music. It has lots of energy and is very expressive.

The response we got from our colleagues today suggests that we are pretty close to where they wanted us to be.

Antawn Jamison

There's only so many times you can say, 'This is the time to get things rolling. With me, I'm pretty much fed up as far as saying that. Eventually we have to pull it together. It's really no more excuses, the way we've been playing, not finding a way to win games, losing close games. It's pretty much put your money where your mouth is and find a way to do it.

Avery Johnson

There was a four- or five-day process when they were on their rooftops, sleeping on roofs and in attics trying to escape, ... Once it hit, you don't have any communication no cellphone, no e-mail, anything with your family. It took five or six days just to find some of my close family. They're OK right now, and we're grateful. Now it's a matter of helping people who are less fortunate than my family.

Charlie Manuel

There?s still time. If (the Astros) win 12 straight games (to close the season), then they damn sure deserve it.

There's so much parity in the U.P. that all of our games might be as close as this one.

Jay Cutler

There's a fine line between winning and losing, and you can really get lost in it. But with the losing we've been through in the last three years and all the times we've been in close games, it makes it so much sweeter now.

John Simm

There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.

There's no question we needed to close the gap tonight.

There's no surprise in the numbers coming so close to the profit warnings. The story here is the company's insistence it can pay a dividend.

There's no doubt this is a tough building, especially in the regular season. Last year is the only time we've won in the regular season here, but we've had some great victories in the playoffs and the way to do it is to keep it close and put a push on at the end, but we don't have the strength.

There's nobody close to that Texas streak. And if not for one lost year there, Ohio State would have a perfect record, too.

Harvey Smith

There's no perfect site, but you try to get close to one.

There's more and more pressure on campground owners to sell to developers. It's getting harder to find a campground close by. The closest campground to Tampa is about 10 miles outside of town.

There's just nothing that comes close to this,

There's no way we would take even anything close to a $12 wage rate.

There's no way I could give you a close guess. There are several parks and several people involved in putting them up there's no way to guess how many there are.

Pete Sampras

(The tournament) was one of my more favorite stops and I know a lot of players love playing in the desert and it's good to see it's staying in the desert. Obviously playing the event for 14 or 15 years, I love the two weeks I would spend there. I have a home close to there and I can have a presence at the event now that I'm a very small piece to a big puzzle.

The toughest thing for us to measure is how fair is it to close a trail that we can't maintain.

The top three. I want to be in the top three of the state -- that's my main goal. I just think it's going to be who wants it more and who works harder. There's not much separating everybody at the state level. You have to win the close ones and be tougher.

The toppling crags of Duty scaled/ Are close upon the shining table-lands/ To which our God Himself is moon and sun.

ISPs' rhetoric is increasingly strident about content from outside providers raising the costs of their networks. But I haven't seen hard data that suggests the volume of legitimate video is coming close to swamping ISP networks yet.

What we are seeing is that customers are taking longer to make decisions and as a result, taking longer to close business,

What to do is not so simple, and we are not even close to having a solid response yet.

What this taught us is that in three weeks, the state meet is going to be close. This prepared us for that close meet. These seniors haven?t experienced a state championship and they want to be part of one. Sometimes you don?t realize how close it can be until a meet like this. This lets us know where we need to double up and get some extra points.

We were originally scheduled to close in mid-April on the properties. To do that we have to give them notice by March 15.

What everybody says about Missy is that she's so consistent, ... Of all her jumps in the first three events, all but two have been elites. There's nobody even close in the database like that.

We talked to the younger kids, and told them they needed to close the gap for the older guys. They did their job.

We talked the other day and some of our goals are close to the same. We'd like to be fighting for the conference championship. Mount Zion is going to be tough. They won it last year and have everybody back, but we want to be in it until the end. We have a lot of guys to replace, but these guys have been pretty successful in the past and they are working hard.

Through these times, we've become close as a team. We try to make teams do things out of the ordinary. We tried to make them speed their game up.

We've been so frustratingly close that you just wonder when you're going to get a break. Maybe this is the year.

We've been so close so often. We finally earned one. Maybe we brightened it up for Sam Rayburn.