Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think this is as close to a sure thing as we can get.

I'm spiritually close to you and pray for you.

Gillian Jacobs

I'm spending way too much time test running my Vine videos. I'll go into a room and close the door and be in there for an hour workshopping a Vine video that I never even post. So that's probably a huge time suck.

I'm sort of on an emotional high. We didn't know each other, so the hospital went all out. We met in a garden there, and there were close to 100 people from the hospital, plus TV and print media, ... It was great.

I'm still shaking from the elation of winning today. We've been so close and been on that other side, watching the other team get the trophy. I think it's a huge step for our program, university and team. We all have worked so hard, from top to bottom, everybody has played such an important roll in our success.

Jimmy Johnson

I'm shocked just like everybody else just how close the championship race is and I think that over the next five it's only going to be more interesting, more aggressive, more stress and pressure, ... It's going to be right down to the very end, I think.

I'm still close with those guys, but for the 60 minutes we're between the lines, they're wearing those uniforms and we have to treat them as such.

Maybe so, but the last couple of years have been close games that they could've won. We're not good enough to look past anyone. And we won't.

Steve Cram

Maybe she is trying to keep people guessing, but close to the championships you should have a pretty strong idea about what you're doing - indecision doesn't help.

Joe Smith

Man, it's always good to get a 'W' - blowout, close, whatever. But lately, we've had a couple close ones, and it's always good to get a 'W.

E. O. Wilson

I'm heartbroken that they're going to close that ramp. It's a very nice lake, and it's a shame what's happening.

Most of the rescues we do are people so when get something close to 2000 pounds, most people don't understand it.

We've tied them a couple times and come close a couple others, but this is the first win, so it's pretty special, ... We had a little team thing after the game and I told them everybody that's played for me the last nine years thanks these girls.

Rick Santorum

We now know the parameters of the debate -- it's between $1.2 trillion and $1.6 (trillion). Our goal is to get it as close to $1.6 (trillion) as we can.

We now have an explosion of new trade and investment incentives - currently 15 under implementation, close to 10 signed, more than 20 under negotiation and at least 16 more proposed.

We now expect second-quarter earnings to be very close to that reported to the first quarter.

John Martin

We never were able to come close to getting them out of their game. They were patient, they took high-percentage shots and they rebounded well.

We need a couple of winners out of here, such as papaya or coffee, to be able to subsidize the other projects. We're getting very close in that effort.

The 'A' team tour is crucial and it is an opportunity for the players to move one step closer to the full international side.

That was good to see Tara and Anya step up and close that out, because it could have gone either way.

That was getting close to happening when Julie Harris had a stroke, and then my mother got ill and eventually died of lung cancer.

That was a tough loss. Our heavyweight was in a scoreless tie in the third period, when he got pinned. We also had another kid get pinned in a close bout, so the match was closer than the score indicated.

That was the start of our run last year, when we went on the road and got those two big wins. It's definitely a place where we played well in the past. We've been close on these road games. They've been there for the taking.

That was the longest game I have ever been a part of. It's always long when you're trying to close out a game, but we didn't put it away at the line.

That was the closest meet I've ever seen. I don't have words to describe it.

That was probably the closest thing to a playoff game all year.

The 11-point difference was not an indication of how close this game was. We feel we should have won the game.

That was a lot closer game than the final score would indicate, and with a new coach (Jim Goff) who was successful at Archbishop Williams and several returning players, they should be tough again.

That was a huge match. It's the one time (overtime) in wrestling when you can stall. You hold your man down, you win. That was a very close match.

That was frustrating because we have lost so many close game. I thought that this was our turn to win a close one, but everything turned out OK in overtime, so we're happy.

That was exhausting. The last two strokes I knew we had won it, it was close all the way. This race has been the main focus of the regatta for me. This is the one I wanted.

That was exciting. We've lost our last two close games, so to pull that one out is huge.

That was critical. We didn't have (Peppers) in there and ... we were able to keep the game right there, keep it close and not lose any ground.