Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Frazier

Between now and June 30, we still have the potential revenue in the sports of baseball, men's volleyball and men's basketball. We'll be pretty close to what's in the five-year plan for this particular year. We should be either zero or plus.

Bobbie was close to the state cut (of 1:01.29) last year. With a little extra work, she'll get there this year.

Martin Jacques

Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox.

O. Henry

Billings sucks, dude. It's so far away, and everybody was coming from Missoula anyway, so it made more sense to do something closer to home.

Everything points to a moderation in the economy, which points to the Fed closer to being finished. The front end of the market has some value here.

Everybody's unhappy, so we must have done something right. This comes closest to meeting people in the middle.

Everybody in our dressing room sees what we have coming back and how close we came. I think we learned a lot from the experience.

Michael Robotham

Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter.

Everyone who has been identified as a close contact has been treated. Those people who are at risk are household contacts, like roommates or people who come in close contact with the person through kissing or sharing of food or drink.

Everyone was looking around the room for someone else to do it and someone else doesn't play for our team. I think it took close to a month for some other guys to reassert themselves.

Everyone up top has been playing together a good four years. We're all real close friends. We all know where we're going to be and how we play, so that helps on the field.

Every player contributed to this victory. We have to thank God because things went well for us, having stayed close in the first.

Every piece, when I first do it, it's so close to me that it speaks too truly to who I am. It's like someone is looking into your soul.

Jim Taylor

Every location was closed because it was not meeting its financial expectations.

Every morning, we get up and proclaim the good news: It's still too close to call!

Every coach was right, this was an exceptionally close meet.

As soon as we got back and closed the gap down, they hit the first 3 and then Willis hit another 3.

As the game gets closer and closer, the rim gets a little smaller. We kept inching, inching, inching, and maybe they start to play a little tighter. The pressure's all on them.

Alexandra Adornetto

As the final weeks of my schooling draw to a close and exams loom, I find myself reflecting on the past six years of my secondary education only to realise that many questions are still unanswered. How have I been shaped by my learning experiences? What skills have I developed that are valuable and transferable in the workplace?

Ali Babacan

as the country's accession process progresses, it will be closer to modern standards.

As the winter season draws out to a close this quarter, the focus will be on gasoline stocks especially since demand has improved on-year.

As the week wore on, you got close to the girls, and as we left to part our ways, tears just flowed from their eyes. I'm hoping that one day I may read the name of one of the girls or players that was with us in the newspaper maybe winning an NCAA title.

As to which reforms he would like to see included in a package on the floor or what amendments will be offered or supported, we will be discussing those as we get closer to action.

As it gets closer and studies get complete, we'll learn more of the details.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Oscar Isaac

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

Paul Coffey

That feeling in the dressing room after you win - nothing comes close to that. You can't get that in any other career. Maybe in the stock market back in the '80s when people were making tons of money, maybe they felt something similar. Maybe. But look at the market now. Nothing gives you that emotion like sports. Nothing. Am I wrong?

Shahid Kapoor

I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other.

Simon McBurney

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Steven Pressfield

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.

Steve Wynn

This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.

To really make this work, you have to close down some of the inefficient firms that are not going to be able to repay their debt to banks. To date, the state or the party has not had the will to shut down many of these firms.

Willie Nelson

This song's been in the closet for 20 years.