Close Calls Quotes

• Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

  Red Barber

  Umpires, Matter, Dull Minds

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• For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Hug, Moments, Remembered

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.322, Del Rey

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• There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Depressing, Years, Advice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.482, St. Martin's Press

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• We've seen what happened in Libya, what a disaster that's been driven by Hillary Clinton, and the disaster in Syria and almost disaster in Egypt. What a close call that's been. We're not out of the woods yet with Egypt.

  Jeff Sessions

  Egypt, Woods, Clinton

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• I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Religious, Years, Two

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 26, 2005.

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• In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.

  Stephen Burt

  Giving Up, Poetry, Personality

  Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

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• In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Dog, Years, Whales

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• The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call.

  Mike McGavick

  Payroll Tax, Increase, Made

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• There's a motto, if you fail and fail, you come back and try again. I've had a couple of failures here in America and close calls, especially in Major Championships, and it's great to finally, finally win.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Couple, Winning, America

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• She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!

  Carolyn Keene

  Mystery, Solve

  Carolyn Keene (1936). “Nancy Drew 13: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm”, p.101, Penguin

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