Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dryden

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own webs from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch

Our revision does not guarantee that the copper market moves to surplus, but it does suggest the market is coming closer into balance.

Our goal is every time to get one step further in the counties. Every year get one step closer to a county championship.

Our goal in these meets is to get in and perform the way we practiced. Tonight was pretty close to the way we practice.

Our goal has to be to be champions. We're closer to Bayern now than we've ever been.

Our goal for this race is to run a complete team race. We want to keep the spread between one and seven as close as possible and have the guys feed off each other's energy.

Kyle Shewfelt

Our goal coming into this was to get that team gold that we were so close to in 2002. It wasn't a personal goal, it was a team goal. I think that's why I was more relaxed.

Our corners were way too soft early on. I don't know why. I don't know if they were just intimidated by (Johnson) or intimidated by the speed. You know, we started two guys who hadn't started before and they were giving way too much cushion. So we locked down and got closer up on (Tech's receivers) and it seemed to be effective. It just was too little, too late.

Our corners were way too soft early on. I don't know why, ... I don't know if they were just intimidated by (Johnson) or intimidated by the speed. You know, we started two guys who hadn't started before and they were giving way too much cushion. So we locked down and got closer up on (Tech's receivers) and it seemed to be effective. It just was too little, too late.

Our top 3 teams all made it into the round of 32 but all of them lost in that round, and a couple of them had really close matches.

Overall I would say pretty good, probably better than last year. It's closer to 2004, but maybe even a little better than that.

John Butler

Overall this a committee that are on hold for the foreseeable future as they seem comfortable while near-term growth is at trend and inflation is close to target.

Overall, the quarter was very close to investor expectations. Every key metric was largely as expected.

Overall he finished 16th, but Levi is still one of our most-important skiers. He's one of the reasons we ended up where we did. He's always an all-out skier. The only way you win or get close to winning is to ski on the edge. And when you ski on the edge, it doesn't always happen. He pushes it to the extreme every time.

Overall good team win. It was a little close at times, but a win is a win.

Darren Aronofsky

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

Dennis Ross

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

Denis Villeneuve

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

Ray Charles

I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Rick Pitino

The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.

Noah Feldman

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways disenfranchised relative to the other groups, or at least they perceive themselves that way.

Nina Garcia

Sweaters are a closet staple. They look great under a leather vest or with a pair of tailored trousers.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.

Brooke Shields

I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

Charles M. Blow

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject.

Charles Francis Richter

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Eric Mabius

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

Carolyn Kizer

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

Nimrat Kaur

Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both.

We are not in a good place. We should be closer now. There should be more progress. And I can't stand here and say that I am comfortable with the negotiations as they stand at this instant.

We are not in a good place. We should be closer now.

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.

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.