Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindy Ruff

You don't want to dig a hole. We kept it close until late, but our passing was awful, and our shooting was worse.

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

Mack Brown

This pretty much puts a close on all of last year.

This plant has performed well. The decision to close had nothing to do with the performance of the plant or its workers.

This plan is going as scheduled. Close to 50 percent of the residents have left.

This order is intended to ensure that this new medium, characterized by openness, diversity and freedom, will not be closed down as a result of this merger.

This move places us closer to our customers in a market that presents excellent long-term growth opportunities for Dell.

Nicolas Kiefer

There was so much pressure, it was a very close match. When there's so much tension on the court you want to win so bad.

Nicolas Kiefer

There was so much pressure, it was a very close match. Some points were so easy, (but) there was so much tension on the court ... you try to fight for every ball.

Nicolas Kiefer

There was so much pressure from so many quarters, it was a very close match.

John Morrison

There was one guy who kept telling him (the driver of the flatbed) to crawl out but the driver yelled back that he was pinned in, ... It was so hot, you couldn't get closer than about 15-feet...The hair on my forehead is singed just from the heat.

Chris Evans

There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.

Ben Sheets

There wasn't any discomfort. I think I'm getting close to getting back.

There will be opposition and it's difficult to predict which side will prevail, particularly because the desire for a closer relationship with India is very widespread and I include myself in that group too.

Steve Ballmer

There will be much closer relationships with telecom equipment makers, telecom service providers, software companies and PC companies occurring over the next few years, ... When we invested in AT&T, we invested in a partnership to secure the future of video services.

There will be a Jazz Fest in 2006. It will be in Louisiana. It will be as close to New Orleans as we can get it,

There will be a Jazz Fest in 2006. It will be as close to New Orleans as we can get it.

There will always be a spearing season. We don't close seasons.

Jared Bernstein

There were close to 200,000 jobs cut in the past couple of months, making them the worst two months of last year. The jobless recovery is not only lingering, it's deepening.

Jim Zalesky

There were at least four matches on paper (141, 149, 157 and 184) that could go either way. Minnesota won all of them. They won the close matches and that was the key.

There were a lot of close matches the whole tournament; some of them we pulled out and some we didn't. We have adjustments to make. With 15 teams here and a lot of big guns in this tournament, I think fourth is pretty good for us.

There were a few close matches where we might have been able to pull out a win, but we just didn't match-up that well with Connellsville. Everyone wrestled tough and it's always good to see how you stack up with the top teams.

There were some plays that cost us runs today that could have made it a closer game. That's something you have to work through.

There were some nice financial opportunities for us moving to the wedge. But it's a very fluid process. I don't view it as a closed episode.

There were so many things I wanted to say to her, but every time I'd get close to her I started crying.

There isn't going to be any doubt that they're going to close some stores. It may be substantial.

There is no way it will come close to the PlayStation. Microsoft will have done well if it gets 10 percent market share in Japan.

The Republican governor and the Republican majority in the Legislature are unable to close that out. The fact they have failed to deal with public education, either education reforms or funding, has come home to roost.

Brian Giles

The replays showed it was close to being a homer and I just dropped it.

There's $210,000 with the state, plus what we're doing as big snow country and what we're doing as individuals. We've got close to $1 million in marketing. Working together, too, is something that is showing. People are happy with that interchangeable ticket. It's a good marketing tool.

There's a lot more homework to be done in order to be close to be entertaining any kind of thought of moving out of the fourth spot,

Sylvia Hatchell

There must have been, what, close to 100 people at her house. The whole house was full -- we had the windows up, people were sitting in the windows, they were sitting on the top of the furniture. It was just unbelievable.

Fouad Ajami

There must have been great yearning and repression in Mohamed Atta's life; it is the torment of Atta's generation. They were placed perilously close to modernity, but they could not partake of it.