2,901 Quotes About Close

Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

You have to play pretty close to perfect.

Him and Roger (Federer) have just really dominated this year, ... And so I went in with nothing to lose...It helped me knowing that I had played really close with Roger, played really close with (Andy) Roddick.

Knowing that I was that close to a semi or final, it makes me realize that the goal going into these Slams isn't just getting to the second week. Maybe I can get in there and win one.

Heather and Denise have been so close over the years.

It's weird how close you can be to making a total wrong turn,

There were close to 200,000 jobs cut in the past couple of months, making them the worst two months of last year. The jobless recovery is not only lingering, it's deepening.

The Cyclones let people know how good we can play. It was a close game, and I think even though we lost, we accomplished what we wanted to here.

We probably relied a little too much on the threes. But even when we got close in, we had some shots rim out. We still take a lot of positives knowing that we got outscored 15-1 in the second quarter and the final (deficit) was 15.