Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Moon

When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.

Ving Rhames

It's really how you deal with people. Do people respect you? Are you honest with people even if it's something they don't want to hear? Anyone in Hollywood will tell you I'm extremely up front and honest almost to a fault.

Azar Nafisi

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life.

Ashley Wagner

I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

Allan Savory

The problem with holistic management is it's so profoundly simple, but it's not easy. And it's profoundly simple. You're almost insulting people's intelligence to explain it twice, just about making better decisions of where you want to go in your life, bringing in environmental, social, economic issues simultaneously.

Brad Paisley

I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.

Benny Green

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

Bennie Thompson

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

Billie Whitelaw

When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

It's almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides.

I'm pretty interested in documentary film, and I'd watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon 'shoot interviews' and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me.

Ben Huh

The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.

Becky G

I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!

Tobias Lindholm

My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.

Teddy Sears

I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

Teresa Medeiros

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

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'.