Closing Quotes - page 6

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause. (Anne Fadiman)
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes. View quote
Bob Beauprez
Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words. View quote
Craig Armstrong
Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause. View quote
Carlton Mellick III
President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won't admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs. View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win. View quote
Dee Dee Myers
A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game. View quote
Doug Collins
It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer. View quote
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. View quote
Gail Sheehy
I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. View quote
Greg Kinnear
The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws. (J. D. Hayworth)
I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. View quote
Jamie Foxx
Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another. View quote
Jeremy Stoppelman
I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic. View quote
Jewel
I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace. View quote
Jim Cantalupo
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else. View quote
Joe Torre
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view. View quote
John Henrik Clarke
In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding. View quote
Julia Glass
Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you're doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths. View quote
Lindsay Wagner
Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then. View quote
Bruce Weber
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall. (Carl Stokes)
The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing. View quote
Jan Chipchase
It lies around us like a cloud A world we do not see Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November. View quote
Eliot Spitzer
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition. Closing line of the Beatles' rooftop concert on (30 January 1969), this was also the last line of the Let It Be film and the album version of "Get Back" View quote
John Lennon