Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toby Young

When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would be opened at my table. Now I can't even get a reservation on the pizza joint on the corner.

Tim Crouch

A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.

Tadashi Shoji

There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.

Trey Gowdy

It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to pick blueberries.

Graham Chapman

We'd obviously realized at this stage that if we wrote something in a show that got repeated, then we would get another fee for it without having to do any extra work. Now that looked like a good idea, and as the BBC didn't pay us very much in the first place- the ingrates-it was almost essential to have the thing repeated.

Tom Jordan

We'd much prefer that they build pollution-reducing features into their projects. The fee is almost a backstop.

We'd make a run and they'd answer. We would have had to play almost flawless.

We were lackluster in our effort and we were outhustled. We had leads in every game, as many as eight points, and were just flat and couldn't hold on. Our hitting wasn't very strong and they returned almost everything we hit.

Olivier Rochus

We were almost laughing at him, and now he's laughing at us. He's No.1, easy. And really, when he was young, at the beginning, he was really bad.

We were almost in arbitration a couple of times, but everyone thought that it was in everybody's interest to reach a settlement. If you leave it up to an arbitrator, you have no control of the situation. We have a duty to represent the player, and that's what we did.

Chris Campbell

We were almost frantically looking for what we were going to do.

Jaromir Jagr

We've got nothing to lose. We're almost dead. I said that if I could play, I was going to play. I didn't help much. Somehow we have to score goals.

We definitely looked rusty and out of sync since we hadn't played for almost two weeks. Our decisions were very poor today. They need to be done much quicker if we are going to compete on a higher level.

We gave them two bombs and it almost cost us the football game.

We don't have to shore (the company) up. That debt is wiped out, ... Our shareholder value is about $500 million and we have almost no debt. So this transaction is not a financial burden to us.

We don't know what the animal ate because it has a beak, and extant animals with beaks can eat almost anything.

Geno Auriemma

Today we played almost well enough to win the game. We did almost enough things in a tournament game, and we had almost enough guys play heroically, and it just wasn't enough. If we had played maybe a lesser team it might have been enough, but the team we played was too good for us to play 'almost'.

Sete Gibernau

Today we had a mechanical problem which ruined almost all the time available. Just before it began to rain I went out on the second bike which was much better, but then the rain brought the test to a halt. We are here to test, and it's better that the problems emerge here rather than in the race!

To go from such a dramatic finish seven days ago to another one today, but with different emotions, really hurts. I really feel for my team right now. It almost hurts worse to lose like this than when you get killed.

To go by a nickname is to almost proclaim yourself in certain male areas,

Mike Wallace

To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.

We didn't change our game plan. When they scored we stayed relaxed. It was almost like we knew we would score more runs.

Hiroyuki Sanada

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.

Henry Bonilla

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

Henry Flynt

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

Hiam Abbass

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.

Henry Selick

You know, I love stop-motion. I've done almost all the styles of animation: I was a 2D animator. I've done cutout animation. I did a CG short a few years ago, 'Moongirl,' for young kids. Stop-motion is what I keep coming back to, because it has a primal nature. It can never be perfect.

Hal Sutton

I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.

Hannibal Buress

You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

When you sit back, wow, that's a whole lot of accomplishments for these guys. I think they got a trophy almost every tournament they went to.

When you see the connection take place, it's as if they are falling in love. The joy on people's faces, the happiness, it's almost tangible.

When you're carrying it 20 or 25 times a game for 16 games, I think that's almost impossible for somebody (his size) to do.

Matthew McConaughey

Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.