Famous Quotes & Sayings

My own view is that full employment is closer to 4 to 4.5 percent -- probably closer to the 4.5 percent range.

Tracy Chevalier

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.

Barry Bonds

My workouts continue to be positive and I feel that I'm getting closer to my goal of joining my teammates this season.

Majora Carter

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

Maria Bamford

My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen, how's your plane? Did you land? Are you landing? Sweetie. Listen. We want to... ' The anxiety amps up exponentially as I get closer, and then I can't get out fast enough.

Rafael Benitez

My idea is to think about the next game and if you win the next game we can move closer and fight for the second place.

My husband was the one who pushed her to come up here. He said 'You can be closer to us, we'll help you out, we want to be near the kids'. She was just shattered after her husband passed away.

Susan Minot

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

Looking the scores we did much better. We lost closer matches and really did do better.

I think there will be closer connections to some of the research institutions in this state.

Shelden Williams

I saw him throw the elbow the first time, so I tried to go in a little closer to see if he'd do it again. He did it again.

I saw a van pull up next to the storm drain. The driver got out, looked around, got back in and moved his van closer to the drain.

Jim Tressel

I was disappointed we didn't get it closer for the field goal if we weren't going to score a touchdown,

I thought we did a lot of good things. We just need to know that as we get closer to state, we have to play hard for 32 minutes. Tonight, 24 (minutes) wasn't good enough.

I thought there was maybe a half million to a million slides and negatives. As it turned out, there's probably is closer to a million and a half to two million slides and negatives.

I thought that match was closer than the score indicated. But when you get to the state meet, everyone is good.

David Payne

I thought she should have been much closer so I wanted to give her the opportunity to race those fillies and see if she's up to them.

Richard Butler

I think we're getting hot, ... I think we were getting closer and closer.

I think we have some good players, but we have to get closer to our potential.

Tom Green

I think we were just worn out from all the travel. It was an honor for us to be in it, no question about it. There were 100 mid-major programs in the game, and we were the first NEC school to be in it. I was hoping we would play someone a little closer to us.

Brandon Evans

It has been an interesting journey when you look at it like that. But this has been our goal since the beginning, and I think everything that's happened has just helped draw us closer together and made us more determined.

I think Utah State is a better team than Montana was. They're closer to what Pacific was.

John Cole

I think talking with the kids in practice, this is probably more of a rivalry than Herkimer. We're closer to Frankfort than Herkimer and the kids have a lot of friends that go to school and live in Frankfort.

It is likely that the investment-to-GDP ratio for 2004 will be revised down closer to 40 percent.

Barry Trotz

It is hard, even as a coach, to say who's going to win it. There's so many teams that are a lot closer than you think. The point totals, disregard them. It's what teams are playing well, what teams aren't.

I think we're going to see a very choppy market for the next few weeks, as we get closer to the election, unless oil prices move sharply one way or the other.

Judd Gregg

Like objects in the rear-view mirror, the impact of Social Security's looming crisis is closer than it appears.

Like most mountains when you get closer to the top it gets a little steeper and a little tougher.

Rerouting could put the snowmobile trail closer to the golf course than the trail that's already there. We would, of course, be concerned about damage to our course.

Our mobile customer numbers showed strong growth, despite the market getting closer to saturation and experiencing strong price competition with capped plans.

Matthew Simmons

I am very concerned, given the destructive damage done by (Hurricanes) Katrina and Rita, that the United States must be closer to starting to see significant product shortages than we've seen since 1979.

Bud Abbott

But for twenty years as a professional team, Lou and I were closer than man and wife.

Bill Watterson

Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all.