The flies surprised us with how close they were in many ways.

Giulio Tononi

We knew it was going to be a close game because of the way they play.

Tom Orlich

We're never going to be Starbucks, but this is as close as we're going to get at this level.

Jonathan Lewis

You don't want to keep [the opponents] that close. If you get up, you want to stay up.

Meredith Lazarus

We haven't been paying close attention to the polls.

James Taranto

I knew it was going to be a brawl. They won the close ones and we didn't, that's what it came down to.

Tony Vanhorn

It was close all game and could have gone one way or another. We've got to make sure we win those games.

Yanic Perreault

"Oooo... that was close."

Billy Boyd

I thought if we don't get our act together we are gonna make this close.

Michael Garnett

It's not routine, but it's pretty close to it. He should be as good as new.

Gord Ash

When you haven't won a lot of close games, you have to find a way to win. We battled through, got it done and that was important for us.

Bill Dreikosen

Eskimos get close because they are one of the few American Indians to have a long skull.

Walter Neves

She's out there. She's strong. She's smart. Just hang in there. We're close. And we'll get you.

Drew Kesse

We were close; almost, but no cigar.

Tom Galligan

I said no because I wanted the people close to me to be able to (afford to) go. Otherwise, it becomes more about the trip than the celebration.

Nikki Thompson

This deal is as close to a perfect match as you can get for an acquisition of this size.

Hamish Brewer

It's not a monopoly, but it comes close.

Steven Bregman

We are a very close-knit group.

Mick Laver

We want to be close to our customers. They're like family to us.

Dennis Chandler

That should be a close one.

Dana Trumm

It's close to rap, but it doesn't always rhyme.

Jason Braun

It's looking to be a close race indeed.

Ryan Chilcote

We're not even close to being done, ... But we're having an impact.

Jim Campbell

We were able to close the door with our defense when we needed.

Jim Zoltowski

It came close, but the levees are holding.

Bob Turner

We can close the book on center fuel tank explosions.

Marion Blakey

It's not even close. I know it's a lot more than that.

David Rae

They are all receiving close monitoring and appropriate treatment.

Dr Ganesh Suntharalingam

This acquisition will get us close to $500 million in sales next year.

John Sargent

What is really clear is that this is a dead-end policy and they are close to the dead end.

Tom Malinowski

Exeter is an especially close-knit community. They all care for one another.

Jim Newman

As far as being track-ready, I would say no. They are not ready and they are not close to being ready.

Matt Pohlman

As I get into my speech, they start to see those things, and it starts to close the gap, and they see -- he really is no different than I am.

Chris Hollyfield

I was really happy. But it's almost painful to be so close.

Courtney Zablocki

When you can't make free throws, you're not able to close the gap. If we would have made a few more, we could have won the game.

Vernon Hamilton

It was close to a life-changing experience.

Roy Tyler

Are you going to ignore that? You just can't close your eyes.

Daniel Hempey

We could get close this year.

John Leahy

And I stay in close contact with them.

Brenda Guiden

Nothing is going be close to (playing) at the D-I level. It's up to me whether or not I can do the job. We'll find out.

Tyler Wilke

For us, for a game, that's pretty phenomenal. We've never come anywhere close to that for a game.

John Ramsey

The South Side Strangler is the only one who comes close.

J. Collins

We couldn't close it out. We took the lead, but we couldn't make the most of that opportunity, and came out on the short end.

Jody Bronson

It does strike me as too close a relationship.

John Chamberlin

I do have confidence we can win a close game.

Kristi Harrell

The airports will never close.

Richard Fernandez

From first to I don't know what, there's only a point (difference). It's very close.

Patrice Lauzon

The last thing you want an open records bill to do is close records.

Catherine Turcer

We're getting close to the way I think we should be playing all the time.

Trey Wallace

There will be all new jobs ... close to 100 new jobs.

Scott Makinster

We've run that play, some version of it, close to 40 times this year.

Brian White

We were real close. I loved him and will miss him.

Kevin Carlberg

I would expect that in five years from now we would come close to that coverage.

Henning Kagermann

The top three are very close. That's why this weekend is so important.

Victor Batista

It's hard knowing we were that close.

Johnathon Jones

We could very much be close to the peak at this time.

Lynn Reaser

That's so close, he must of leaned just a little more than I did.

Luke Rucks

She's really close to her family which is awesome. She always brags about her little sister and I love that about her.

Amber Hall

As we are getting close, I think there is a certain amount of fatigue.

Martha Cotter

We're extremely close to this project now. I mean, extremely close.

Robert Robinson

I'm in no rush but I want to do things right, ... to be close to the source.

Camile Velasco

We?re all close, and we stuck together.

Jim Fitzpatrick

They've all been close. They've all been dogfights. I expect another one (today).

Aaron Biggs

The two were very close, but we didn't recruit them that way. We talked about if you both come here, we can do this, but Lindsay is her own cat and Liz is her own cat.

Joanne P. Mccallie

That's as close to a perfect round as I've ever played.

Charles Warren

It tells you 60 seconds before impact how close you are.

John Hotard

They lost all close matches.

Dawn Hall

We will be close enough that the Serbs will know NATO will be there.

Michael Short

It's one thing to bring in friends, people you are close to who are qualified for the job. It's another thing for people to be getting the job only because they are friends and they are not qualified for the job.

Larry Noble

It's not even close.

Thomas Brewer

It was close between two clever boxers, but Leigh did enough to win.

Paul Guy

It was pretty close -- a lot closer than I thought.

Todd Baker

It will close the chapter of colonization.

Patrick Chinamasa

You just get really close to these people.

Bart Tucker

This is the cleanup. It doesn't close until every last $20 claim is resolved.

James Sprayregen

I speak to the chairman all the time because he's close to the team.

Alain Perrin

It's about as rural as you can get. It's not the frontier, but it's close.

Darlene West

Short dresses, really short ... the structure is controlled, it's close-to-the-body.

Angela Missoni

It's very, very close to a full-term pregnancy.

Michael Rowland

They never came close to finding the still.

Chuck Williams

It would be a mistake to close the 179th.

Dave Johnson

From the beginning, we knew the game would be close.

Frantz Matheus

We are training every day to close the gap on that wrestler.

Jim Day

We've battled hard, and because of that and a lot of fate, we have pulled out some close games.

Jesse Lee Bennett

We wanted to play better defense and close this one out.

Tasmin Mitchell

Every time I'd go down there to close up, everybody thanked me.

Margaret Warner

He's very close to being to able to control the race from start to finish.

Graham Barton

None of the alternatives, ... are even close.

Daniel Johnston

It really was a close call.

Robert Gates

We had them on the ropes. We had them backed up and needing a breather. We needed to come for blood and close it out but we didn't.

Chris Barclay

I was glad it was in close, because I had a better chance to get him out. Luckily, I threw the ball on a line and got him.

Richie Sedor

This is a close-knit rural area ...

Brent Davis

It was so close.

Atom Egoyan

It was close but he stood up to us.

Brad King

But he'll be close enough to walk home.

Antonio Tarver

I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.

Frankie Avalon

I think we can be pretty close to that again.

David Andrews

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

James Reston

The time for bringing a close to tobacco litigation is nigh.

Jack Weinstein

We'll be tested here because there are teams here that are close to us, but we expect to do well.

Frank Murray

It's getting close to being two years away, so it's close, and it's exciting already.

Ian Thorpe

This was heartbreaking. We've been so dang close.

Charlie Hughes

From that standpoint, we'd like to get as close to paperless as we can.

David Whiles

There's so much parity in the U.P. that all of our games might be as close as this one.

Ben Leiker

The whole neighborhood was close-knit. It always was safe. It was for me.

Donna Norris

It's an attraction for people to have a good school close to where they live.

Marge Pryately

The scoreboard reflects exactly how close this game was.

Tana Umaga

It does get very close to ethical concerns.

Dick Devos

We do have wireless in the library. But no where else, not even close to the whole building.

Scott Case

It's pretty close to break-even.

Nile Easton

It seems more cold than usual, but really it's very, very close to what's normal.

Harry Hillaker

We are not close to an agreement.

David Levy

He's very close to his dad, his step-dad and his stepmom.

Julie White

The man in Baton Rouge said to call when we get close.

Mike Stringer

We're learning how to win, and we're learning how to close games out. There's no panic on the sideline if we're behind.

Jeff Genyk

We may be the last district in Monmouth County to close it in.

Roger Caruba

They were just awesome today. This meant more to them than anything, they put everything on the line, and were this close.

Maureen Barnett

I close my eyes and it's 1968. He's frozen in time.

Bill Weld

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Stephen Vizinczey

There were a few bidders who won, but could not close, for whatever reason. But that will happen.

Caryn Kaufman

If we close New London down, we'll never get it back.

Anthony J. Principi

Nothing we observed got close to a Category 3 wind speeds.

Kurt Gurley

We're 6-1, but we can't be overconfident. We could just as easily be 1-6. We've won a lot of close games.

Andy Hedrick

We are very close to announcing to the press our plans for next season.

Tim Mitchell

We didn't know we had such a good example so close by.

Mark Morris

They are a team of superstars, really. Everyone on their team is close to All-American times.

Steve Whittington

When we close at 12:15 [a.m.], having to walk to your car and being scared or having to worry that someone is out there to get you.

Andrea Beatty

We're very close to that now.

Richard Kokjohn

He's not 100 percent, but he's close.

Gerald Cox

If they were unanimous in their rejection we would close the door.

Helen Zille

You'll have an opportunity to see a fuel cell up close and personal today.

Niel Golightly

Never before or since, ... has the world been brought so close to nuclear war.

Donald Kagan

We're not that close. There's just a lot of things changing. We're watching the market move.

Brian Lawton

I don't think were anywhere close to the bottom.

Drew Peck

These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me.

Kevin Adams

My concern is those kids. I've been keeping them close to the house.

Karyn Kuennan

No one expected him to be this close this soon.

Sherry Sylvester

Not exactly a fairy-tale ending, was it? But it was close.

Bill Mott

I am close to being three weeks out of surgery so who knows?

Duce Staley

She was like a mother to me, too. I was pretty close to her.

Brenda Smith

That's one of our goals this year. We want to come as close as we can to the record if we can't break it.

Troy Matteson

Now in 2005 we feel we are back close to 2001 levels.

Jack Dent

We've never been this close.

Paul Lepiane

We know what it's like, we've always been close (to getting back there). That is our goal, to make it there.

Frank Pietrangelo

Our teams are close. We really appreciate the men sticking around and cheering us on. They showed us that we can do it.

Beckie Francis

She saw a big boat coming close and she said, 'Whoop-dee-doo. I love a rocking boat.' .

Dorothy Warren

These will be the last runs of my career, I'm very close to the end.

Georg Hackl

Right now, they're close to capacity, so that relief valve isn't there.

Alec Young

The team is very close and (the players) are genuinely rooting for one another.

Rhonda Faehn

These (close losses) are getting too commonplace.

Craig Turek

It brings us frighteningly close to a show me your papers society.

Carrie Davis

He threw some borderline pitches that didn't go his way. I don't think that there were a lot of missed calls, but there were a lot of close pitches.

Brian Price

The truck driver had felt sorry for them. They were close in age to a child of his own.

Bill Ward

She requires the defense's attention so they have to close in on her. That allows us to get a lot more open shots.

Cyndi Valentin

We're continuing to evaluate what exactly we need to do to close out the agency.

Lester Murray

No. 20 was on fire. And two of those she hit my players were pretty close to her.

Karen Deden

For a bubble this size, this is very close.

Yurii Pidopryhora

Ed and I are real close. We get along great.

Sam Wheeler

We are paying close attention to them. It's our business.

Terry Connelly

We're like a little family. I call them my cousins even though we have no relation. But we're really close.

Shanice Billington

I will get closure when they close the lid on my casket.

George Williams

Mickey was right, ... I was too close to the plate.

Vladimir Guerrero

They are a close family.

Roy Hunn

It's close to home, and it's a pretty nice school.

Jazzmine George

It was real close. He was right there, right beside me.

D'andre Ruff

There was a lot of business in the pipeline, but we simply failed to close contracts.

John Joyce

The manager decided to close it because he didn't have any cooks.

Mark Armstrong

No, ... But the way I looked at it was that it was a close call with the technology, but it was distribution that put (IE) over the top.

David Colburn

We were really fighting until the end. Even so close to the pole, I wasn't so sure we would make it.

Tom Avery

Everyone was close friends.

Doc Severinsen

It's devastating. I've never been that close to anything so horrific in my life.

Charlene Lowry

I think we?re pretty close. It looks very good.

Craig Stevenson

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

Henry J. Kaiser

It was one of those days where any one play, in a game that close, can end up biting you. And (Sunday), it did.

Dave Machemer

Tim Mason has been close to the helm for 10 years so he's got to know something.

Tony Shiret

We were so close; it's just a big disappointment to lose when you're so close.

Mari Pehkonen

That (depth) is what I'm gearing up for Thursday. It'll be very close on Thursday.

Julie Johnston

This process has kind of helped us close that gap.

Mike Burk

It's a repudiation of the Bush administration's attempt to close the federal courts to those accused of terrorism.

Jose Padilla

There's very, very little chance of rain. All our event models pay very close attention to safety.

Charlie Jones

We almost had it. It was close.

Jessica Parenti

I thought it would either be really close, or if we could run, it'd be pretty much a blow out. We were able to run.

Caryn Jarocki

We're very close. Not just show business friends.

Freddie Bell

It was good to see her not have any trouble. The two matches were not even close.

Gerard Sullivan

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.

Carolyn Sime

We lost a couple we should have won, but we won every close match.

Dave Ewing

There will always be a spearing season. We don't close seasons.

Ron Bruch

It was a very good, close game.

Darrin Karuzas

I did the close-ups, in harsh light, and you could see to the bone.

Wilhelm Brasse

I had a good feeling that as close as we were, we'd be called down to do something.

John Mcguire

How much involvement did he have to those activities that happened so close to his office?

Robert Grant

There's no perfect site, but you try to get close to one.

Harvey Smith

I chose this building because it was close to the mall and business is very good here. We are very happy with this location.

Justin Qiu

We try to have lettuce coming off every day. It's amazing how close we can get it despite of nature.

Chris Bunn

Portsmouth is a pet-friendly area. There are a lot of outdoor activities, and you?re close to beaches and mountains.

Bill Girard

We were just right there in some of it. We were awful close.

Libby Ouellette

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

Benjamin Bratt

He always breaks well, and he's going to be close to the lead if he's not on the lead.

Bob Holthus

This one is very close to being perfect.

Jim Maloney

Slick just got me in the door, ... Then I had to close the door.

Christopher Nelson