Famous Quotes & Sayings

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

This is definitely the most demanding role I've ever had. It's almost like a job. I've found myself having to do research and really work at this character. It's much harder memorizing lines when they're all in a thick Irish accent.

Rob Enderle

This is an initiative to create a high level of integration and is almost a complete reorganization of the Microsoft architecture, ... But I haven't seen anything new they've done that has gotten me excited.

This is an exceptional period of time for astronomy, because for the first time we are able to combine data from almost all of the important wavelengths.

This is really a great prize -- all the bowl games, flying on a private jet, staying in nice hotels. I'm a big college football fan so I'm looking forward to seeing some great games. I still can't believe I won. My sons put me in front of the computer almost a dozen times to register, and luck took care of the rest.

This is still in its infancy. It's almost a research project.

That's when the site was really booming. People in the town will tell you, they knew what color of dye was being made on almost any day of the week, because the brook down the street would turn purple or red, or whatever color they were making dye for that day.

E. B. White

That three-pointer was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I was in awe. I almost didn't get back on defense because I was so in awe.

That's what we have almost seen with China and India's demand.

That's what makes him really good and able to play right away at an early age. Great players don't have any fear of taking big shots. And the crowd never bothers him. He almost gets more hyped.

That's what made this almost impossible to get someone to pay attention for it.

That the ratings are likely to be down is almost inevitable. Event programming is not yielding the breakout ratings it used to in the past.

Tim Wakefield

That's not the reason I do it. It's almost embarrassing to get recognition for things off the field. I feel like I'm supposed to do these things. I have an opportunity to give back to a lot of people who deserve help, who deserve a chance.

Greg Jackson

That's not how we want to play. We almost gave it away. That's not what we'll be playing the rest of the season.

Joe Thornton

That's how it usually works in hockey, they almost score and we come back and bury that second goal. It was kind of a backbreaker for them, so it was a big goal for us.

That organization is on some days almost dysfunctional, ... I think Julie may be just the person to pull people and functions together to get them working right for a change.

That number is almost double from last year when only 20 percent of consumers polled has a similar response,

Rich Rodriguez

That gets brought up every time I talk to the media. There's been so much that has gone on in our league, it's almost like I knew that was coming.

Allan Houston

You see something like this, driving around in your car, walking around in your house, like Steph said, you almost feel guilty because there are people who have lost everything. I just want to encourage everyone to do something.

You start with the educational purpose, but with any technology, teens will find other uses for it than the main one. Almost all of them do things that we never get around to. Even the graphing calculators for math come with their own games, and the kids will discover them.

Jeff Lemire

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

Nancy Kress

Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

You're not just looking at shrapnel of the explosion, you're looking at a bubble. It's just this expanse that is filled with matter and antimatter electrons moving at almost the speed of light.

Jesse L. Martin

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.

You're been waiting for so long that it almost doesn't seem real, and then, all of a sudden, you have her.

You're almost like a hired gun. You better get the win, and if you don't win, you better get your numbers.

Dwayne Smith

You're almost guaranteed points every time she competes. She brings a lot of senior leadership to the team. Her desire is to bring the girls together. That's a quality you can't teach.

You really must look at your entire portfolio and not look just at the past quarter or even the last year. Extraordinary expectations have been built into fund performance for almost six years now. You've witnessed returns of 20 percent or more in most stock equity funds, but in some cases they're just not sustainable.

You really get to know these people. It almost becomes a detective story. Why is Brick like this?

Tony Stewart

You're 11th, but a lot of those guys gotta stop, so we're really more like fifth... I may have over-adjusted on that last stop, so I'll take the blame, but the reason you may be loose is because your right rear quarter panel is hanging almost straight out after the 20 (Stewart) hit you.

John Clarke

You need street trees to form canopies that help unify the street. They provide shelter for the sidewalk and keep people separated from traffic. It's almost mandatory.

John Tortorella

Your best players need to be your best players and almost dominate games. Or your goaltending dominates a game. You just need some dominating performances, and if you're going to have dominating performances, it's going to come from your best guys. And if you sprinkle two or three of those in six games, and you find a way to win four or five games, that's when you start getting that swagger back.