Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's one thing to save $50 million in salary and maybe forfeit a season. For a guy as competitive as Mr. Loria, it's almost impossible for me to think he would just concede for the foreseeable future.

It's one of your impact positions, that left tackle spot. In our eyes it's almost a skill position in terms of the abilities it takes to play out there.

It's obvious that something needs to be done. We're almost at a 40 percent disability rate.

It's not easy. I'd almost understand if they rolled over and died.

It's the lowest level of growth for almost a decade and the government had indicated it was expecting something in the region of 3 percent,

It's the least cost-efficient dam project we could look at. We've almost fully developed the San Joaquin and take something like 98 percent of its water to the point where it usually does not flow anymore.

It started out running, galloping on fours like a dog, but when it dove I could see the arms come up. It was sizable, almost like a bear, but not a bear, not the way its arms moved.

It's the noise. On game day, it sounds almost the same. I want to say Death Valley is louder, but sometimes, I don't know, man, it gets loud, like really loud out here.

Tom Ridge

It's the responsibility of our staff to plan and prepare this being almost a permanent part of our environment in the future,

Michal Handzus

They didn't have many chances, but they seemed to score on the few chances they had, like that shot off a skate. We had killed almost all the penalty. They had no shot but a lucky bounce.

Steve Price

They feel relieved already, ... it's almost like the cavalry arriving in the old films.

The yen was sold as the market anticipated that Japan's short-term interest rate would continue to remain at almost zero.

Jimmy Carter

They enhanced human rights in all nations. At the same time, they transformed our relationships in America, breaking down racial barriers that existed for almost two centuries.

They are so popular right now. They're seen almost as a fashion accessory, like earrings or the cat's eye. Right now, the focus is on lips.

You don't find much presidential timber in New York because the soil is polluted with machine politics. Unlimited incumbency and almost unlimited patronage breed grubby politicians. But Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani cut in line to win here without paying dues to the spoils system.

This porch is the first place we hit when we come home at night. And where we like to stay all weekend. Sometimes, we never want to leave. And we don't plan to. The mortgage is almost paid off and this house is just perfect for us. We don't need anything bigger and the porch is nicer than anything we've seen on a new house.

Byron Dorgan

This partnership borrowed over $110 million from a Canadian bank and that showed up booked as income to the company immediately, ... They were doing almost no business, but they manufactured income from a bank loan under their operative statement. That's the kind of thing that went on over and over and over again, shrouded in secrecy.

This morning we had back orders on all those; we're pretty much at zero for almost everything.

Zach Johnson

This morning was cold and wet. When it is like this, its almost like you're playing a different game.

This month is so busy, it's almost unbearable. Some days we get so busy we don't get to eat lunch or take a water break or . . . well, stop for any kind of break.

This might be the best thing that ever happened to Venice as a 3-10 team in the district almost beat them.

There was really no place locally to get these kinds of products, except for at one place in the Chico Mall or in the city. I got tired of making the trip out of town, so I decided to put them in the salon and test them out to see how they would be received. They sold out almost immediately. I never expected them to do that well.

Drew Stafford

There wasn't much to say. It's almost becoming a broken record for us.

There was harsh, intimidating language that appears to be very subjective and open-ended. ... The club almost has the right to do whatever it wants, at its option. That's how complicated the language is. The other clubs simply have one line that states it is subject to the player passing a physical. That's what Pittsburgh's document has.

There was not a lot of second-guessing by Blue Cross. The hassle factor was almost zero,

There will be close to 3,000 homes in the neighborhood eventually. It's almost like a separate town within Jersey City.

James Farrior

There were plays when he'd drive the center back so far, he was almost taking the handoff, ... He was disrupting everything.

There weren't any real black eyes for Merrill this quarter. It was good for them, and it was good almost everywhere.

There were definitely a lot of highs this year. I think winning games that, coming into them, we shouldn't have won and no one thought that we would have won was just the best feeling - upset wins, which I guess you could say they almost all were.

Geno Auriemma

There were two possessions and the one at the end. The last one, this is how games are won and how they are lost. Sometimes it almost doesn't matter what you do the whole game. The game can come down to a possession or two.

There were times when I was in the mist of the crowd and found I was the only one who didn't have a rock in my hand. I almost felt out of place.

Ruth Brown

There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stuff.

There were students from all over the world. Their professor asked them to write thank-you letters. Almost every one of them said, 'We have a story like...' When you share stories, you see the connecting points, which are gifts that connect us to each other. You learn that you don't have to be in conflict.