Famous Quotes & Sayings

We went through this whole process in late May and we had a 7 percent correction. We regained almost the whole amount that we lost, and now with these numbers, investors are right back in the same mind set that they were at the end of May.

Gretchen Bleiler

We went out to get some fresh powder. We sneaked onto a part of the mountain that was blocked off by the military. So we went on to the ropes - sorry - and man, we found some great powder. And I fell and almost busted my nose too.

We went out almost in a blaze of glory. But a couple weird things happened. I've never seen anything like it. It was sort of like going into the Twilight Zone.

We have enough wineries that we can almost promote ourselves as a destination for wine tourists.

David Russell

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.

Abhishek Bachchan

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.

Aubrey Plaza

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

Gina Barreca

Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.

Ben Shapiro

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

We created a license that was almost impossible, if not impossible, to counterfeit, to fake, to get.

We could see higher prices by the end of this month, and almost certainly by this summer.

We do not put any pressure or expectations on wins and losses as a school. The players may, though. The fact it happens almost every other year is just icing on the cake.

BOO BUSH. We almost got into a brawl last weekend for yelling 'Boo Bush!' at a party.

Bond yields have been creeping up on an almost daily basis since the beginning of October, pushing mortgage rates up as they go, ... Inflation remains low, however, and we expect that to continue into 2004 and beyond. And as long as it does, we won't see mortgage rates rising very dramatically.

Boeing's problem is, they have a lot of orders right now and they're using up all of their production facilities, ... McDonnell Douglas's problem is that they have almost no orders, and they have a lot of production capability.

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.

Ryan Malone

Both of them are obviously going to be great players in the league for a long time. It's something to see. There's so many different ways you can twist things around, so I think everything's up in the air. You almost wish they could share the award, but you just have to wait and see what happens.

Both of their fathers came from Bangladesh 40 years ago as unskilled, almost illiterate laborers. They went to work in the garment factories in the midlands. Later, they brought their wives over and put their children in school.

Ann Kirkpatrick

Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

Brice almost got him. He wrestled Platt tough.

Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson in 1945 and he went to the minor leagues and then to Montreal in 1946 before being called up to the majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. That one move still has a huge impact on baseball almost 60 years later.

Ellen Pompeo

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.

Brewster was a real great champion. He hits real hard with power and has lots of will. After the fourth round, I knew I was controlling the fight, but Brewster hits like a mule. I felt like I did the right thing when I took a knee at the end of round seven. I almost sent him down twice, too.

Brit's waited five years. That's almost unheard-of for someone to do that. She's played like an all-conference player.

Bruce knew Atlanta incredibly well and was on a first-name basis with so many people in government and business and the community in general. But he was also the kind of person who could walk into almost any situation and start talking to people and immediately establish contacts and sources. He was our Rolodex in some ways. He had everyone's number on the tip of his tongue.

Bruce Chen went 72/3 innings, gave up four hits (actually five) and they were all home runs, but he kept his team in the game. He almost went a complete game without even pitching once from the stretch.

Al Sharpton

Brown became like a father figure to me who insisted I live the life of a monk, let alone a minister. I had to stay in the hotel he stayed in, stay in my room, and he would almost select my girlfriends. He was very adamant that he had promised my mother that I would not go wayward on the road, and he enforced it. So even though I knew the entertainment world, I was not of the entertainment world -- and not by any choice of my own. He promised my mother that he'd make sure I was never on drugs, that I never lost my head, and that he'd take care of me himself. And he did.

Brown & Williamson (now R.J. Reynolds Tobacco) for two decades was the No. 1 contributor for United Way. At their peak, it was almost $1 million about six years ago, so they were obviously an awfully important part of our efforts each year.

This could be almost worse than Katrina because there are 4 million barrels of refining in Texas areas, much more than there was in New Orleans. (Texas) is the other major refining heart.

This district is 700 years old and we've had trafficking in women for almost the same amount of time. It exists -- but nothing like to the extent people have been saying.

George Combe

This class of writers comes most into contact with the barristers, because almost the exclusive occupation of the latter is to conduct litigation.

This case is 3 1/2, almost 4 years old. Whether it's an intruder or someone in this house who committed this homicide, there's some difficult tough questions that have to be answered, and you know, Mr. Wood wants to pick and choose what gets asked and I'm not going to be part of that.