Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

You really must look at your entire portfolio and not look just at the past quarter or even the last year. Extraordinary expectations have been built into fund performance for almost six years now. You've witnessed returns of 20 percent or more in most stock equity funds, but in some cases they're just not sustainable.

You really get to know these people. It almost becomes a detective story. Why is Brick like this?

Tony Stewart

You're 11th, but a lot of those guys gotta stop, so we're really more like fifth... I may have over-adjusted on that last stop, so I'll take the blame, but the reason you may be loose is because your right rear quarter panel is hanging almost straight out after the 20 (Stewart) hit you.

John Clarke

You need street trees to form canopies that help unify the street. They provide shelter for the sidewalk and keep people separated from traffic. It's almost mandatory.

John Tortorella

Your best players need to be your best players and almost dominate games. Or your goaltending dominates a game. You just need some dominating performances, and if you're going to have dominating performances, it's going to come from your best guys. And if you sprinkle two or three of those in six games, and you find a way to win four or five games, that's when you start getting that swagger back.

Kris Draper

You put Pavel in there, it puts us almost to the upper echelon to compete with the high-end teams.

Rod Barajas

I just change my whole approach. My stance is completely different. I go down almost on one knee and turn my body almost sideways so I have more time and I can catch the ball deeper. It's a matter of finding something you can feel comfortable with. You want to be relaxed and be able to move your glove quickly from side to side.

I'm 38 years old, and it's flattering to get called by some personnel director, asking me if I want to come back. Once or twice, maybe, and it's kind of funny, but I'm hearing it all the time, from almost all of them. It's serious.

I know almost nothing about this young man. I need to know what makes Travis Biehn tick.

Gordon England has believed since he was in industry that the acquisition system is broken. If given the opportunity, he'll push to change almost every aspect of the way the Pentagon does business because he believes billions of dollars are being wasted.

For the local economy, it would mean almost immediate inflationary and economic growth risks, and would require a cautious response from the monetary authorities.

For the last three or four months, Mesa's interests have been focused just on trying to keep the country from exploding. He has satisfied no one, and he seems almost irrelevant.

Luis Aragones

For their performances in some recent games and almost 65 minutes on Wednesday, the side deserve some credit. They deserve a vote of confidence.

Matt Mickiewicz

If I go to a conference and someone tells me that they learned how to develop websites on Sitepoint and now they're a CTO at a company earning almost $200,000 a year, that lets me know that I'm doing the right thing.

All of tech has been massacred, but our data suggests that storage may weather the storm better since its earnings stream will be more reliable than almost any other area of technology.

All these guys have played a lot of soccer with a lot of different players. They've played on regional teams, club teams, national teams, so I think almost everywhere we go, inevitably there's players that know one another.

All the kids came here to play, almost every day.