Closings Quotes

#1. The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

Nina Easton

#2. Keep your head down, fella. Do your job. Sell the product, write the contracts, negotiate the loans, attend the closings, bank your share and fatten the Keogh accordingly.

John D. MacDonald

#3. I think there [are] great economies that can be made starting with a round of base closings, ... I want the president to veto these pork-barrel spending bills which have grown to incredible obscene levels. I believe there are a number of weapons systems that have to be eliminated.

John McCain

#4. A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

Walter Winchell

#5. I meddled in things that man must leave alone

R. C. Sherriff

#6. I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#7. By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#8. Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Liv Ullmann

#9. What in the name of Buddha's bra is he going on about now?

Louise Rennison

#10. You don't know if you can do it unless you try!

A.M. Westerling

#11. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones

#12. They were very scary times [1982], Midge Ure dancing with tears in his eyes. That German girl with the hairy arm pits singing about 99 red balloons.

Kate Harrison

#13. Only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.

Rigoberta Menchu

#14. I'm a nervous wreck. If it's a 20-day shoot, at lunchtime on the first day, I'm thinking "Only 19 and a half days to go ... I can make it!"

Guy Maddin