Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howie Mandel

I've spent more time in Las Vegas than any other city, almost including L.A. where I live.

I've spent almost 12 years at Universal Pictures, and it has been a rewarding experience enabling me to work with world-class talent in the movie-making process,

Jack Levin

I've studied family massacres for more than 20 years. First of all, it's almost always the husband or father, (and) in almost every case he has suffered some kind of catastrophic loss.

I've stayed almost every summer, and most of the girls in my class do too. There's usually a good chunk of the team here during the summer.

It's a fine line. It's almost an arrogance some players play with. And they've got to have some of it. You want to have confidence without too much arrogance with it.

Joe Paterno

I told him we're too old for this. It's almost past my bedtime.

I told people I had a tough time getting $1,000 from those corporate honchos for charity events. But when you start talking about the Olympics, you almost get a blank check.

I told our guys after the game that for almost three weeks we've done almost everything in an execution situation to win the game. But tonight we just came up a little short.

Victor Martinez

It might be because it was the first one. They really don't know what they missed. The United States team is like an All-Star team. The Dominican team is like an All-Star team. That tournament was almost a big league tournament.

It meant that the rest of the team had to be almost perfect to keep us in the race. And while we weren't perfect, we did well enough to end up in fourth place after the first day, only 13 points out of the lead.

Ryan Zimmerman

It's a perfect fit and all year long they've been interested. It's almost too perfect to be true.

Francis Coppola

It's a parable, it's a fable. It's almost like an intellectual Twilight Zone , ... In a way it's like a Hitchcock picture and Tim Roth is the Jimmy Stewart, the guy who gets caught up in something fascinating and big.

It's an ongoing battle and we talk to him almost between periods every game. He can be the difference and you hope it's a positive difference.

It's an interesting contradiction in which the violent world that we live in takes on the qualities of a dream world - in that it is almost entirely fictional in terms of the images that we consume, while the realities of the violence that does surround us tend to be excluded from media coverage.

Reggie Theus

It's a real difficult question to answer because they're all very different. This (Nevada) is a more athletic team than Utah State. But Utah State is the best shooting team in college basketball. They're almost a better shooting team than my UNLV team in '77. Almost.

I tried almost the same thing as he did last year in our match and I lost. Losing to him last year gave me that mental edge and made me work harder to be a sectional champion.

Jennifer Fallon

I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.

It requires that people be really tight, family tight, and that they know each other extremely well. So I think that's part of the reason why we're able to do it, because we're such old friends and almost sort of symbiotic in certain respects.

It really is an insular, self-contained, almost self-perpetuating culture,

James Augustine

It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here.

Marat Safin

I tried my best but unfortunately in the third set he was much better than me. I had no strength and almost fell over a couple of times, but I was trying.

Josh Powell

I tried it once and almost hit my neck. No way I was trying it again.

It really comes down to the fact that I get to put Robert Blake on the stand. That's what separates this from the criminal trial in almost every way possible.

Dan Rice

It's a hospital full of kids, full of children, and the folks just came out on the balconies all the way up. It almost brought tears to your eyes.

It's a living, ... But it's not a big money-making business. It's almost like a sport. A good party has a lot of energy: great energy, great people. What is great people? You can't define it. It's something exciting to your eyes and to your mind.

You start with the educational purpose, but with any technology, teens will find other uses for it than the main one. Almost all of them do things that we never get around to. Even the graphing calculators for math come with their own games, and the kids will discover them.

Jeff Lemire

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

Nancy Kress

Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

You're not just looking at shrapnel of the explosion, you're looking at a bubble. It's just this expanse that is filled with matter and antimatter electrons moving at almost the speed of light.

Jesse L. Martin

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.

You're been waiting for so long that it almost doesn't seem real, and then, all of a sudden, you have her.

You're almost like a hired gun. You better get the win, and if you don't win, you better get your numbers.

Dwayne Smith

You're almost guaranteed points every time she competes. She brings a lot of senior leadership to the team. Her desire is to bring the girls together. That's a quality you can't teach.