Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jaromir Jagr

Its tough to be down (in the series), I can't really describe how it feels. We are almost done and we are unable to score any goals.

It's unbelievable, almost surreal. I knew if we kept it close, we had a chance.

Jennifer Rodriguez

It's very disappointing to walk in and it's half empty. I can't believe this is the Olympics. It almost felt like a World Cup meet. The Olympics should be sold out.

It's very common in the Northeast to have almost everyone get a tip.

Jon Mead

It's usually at least 30 days between, and I'm not worried. I've heard that at almost every single Slam. That's just the way these things always work. But I haven't heard anything like that (teams declining to go because of it).

It's trickle-down contracting: You're paying a cut at every level, and it makes the final cost exponentially more expensive than it needs to be. And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes.

It's not something we do lightly. It's time for a change. It's almost immoral to continue.

Ron Maclean

It's not official, but ... it's almost certain.

It's not much, but still it's so much that we're almost overwhelmed. The first grain we worked on, we haven't even cut into the main part of the particle yet.

It's not like pills, where almost overnight you can lose 98% market share. That's not going to happen, because these are much more complicated drugs to manufacture.

Roger Clemens

For me, it's almost like I turn into a robot, I've done it for so many years. I'm a creature of habit. I've got a great program, I love to do it, so I'm doing it.

Rod Smith

For me, it's almost like it is back at Dove Valley for me. Guys are like, 'Rod, what do I do on this?' because they figure I know all (that's going on).

For me, it's almost a 24/7 process. It's not like I only think when I'm in the office sitting at my desk.

For Lake Okeechobee, this was almost a non-event.

For Jodi to open up with that kind of mark is very encouraging. The height that she went out at is one that is almost a guarantee to go to the national championship and for her to be there at this time of the year is good news.

Tim O'Brien

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

For many years, we have looked at the managed care system as a managed cost system, and we have done almost all we can. Now, we are looking at improving the overall health of our employees as a way to reduce costs.

John Varvatos

For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie.

For eBay, Yahoo would represent a huge expansion of their base. For Yahoo, whose revenue is almost entirely derived from advertising, it gets them a new stream.

Bob Taft

For every 10 students who start high school in Ohio, only seven will earn a diploma, only five will enroll is post-secondary institution and of those, fewer that three out of 10 will complete a bachelor's degree within 10 years, ... Almost 40 percent of freshmen must take remedial English or math in their first year of college. A high school diploma should mean that a student is prepared to succeed in college.

Charles Schumer

For four years, President Bush . . . had a lot of luck on his side, ... There's a yin and yang to this, a warp and woof, and it's all catching up, almost at the same time.

Hugh Grant

For five years or six years, almost nothing happened in Europe, there was a de facto moratorium where products weren't approved,

Antonio Porchia

For as long as and insofar as it cannot be, it is almost always a reproach to everything that can.

For a single person like myself, it's almost impossible to get into the housing game. And it's convenient. The location would be great.

For any other person, it would be a huge issue. It's almost like he's used it as an asset.

Ryan Holmes

For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it.

David Robinson

For a while it was just smoke, and then the wind picked up real bad and ? poof! ? it spread really fast. It went from almost out to full blown.

Football was a game that had kicked me around pretty good for a few years. I almost called him and said, 'Hey look, this isn't for me. I'm going to move on with my life.

Robert Thompson

For all the enormous social and cultural upheaval and change and revolution which we've all come to know as cliched definitions of the '60s, prime-time television in this country managed to almost completely ignore it,

For a long time, there wasn't much board scrutiny. Things worked on almost auto-pilot.

For almost two months, he has been arbitrarily separated from his father and his four grandparents.

For almost ten years, nobody asked me to structure a dividend-yield portfolio. Now I'm getting calls from a lot of clients asking for one.

Ray William Johnson

For almost a year, I sporadically made these rather lame video blogs in my dorm. These video blogs were reflective of most video blogs during that time in that they had no real structure and were kind of just all over the place.