Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete du Pont

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.

Peter Benchley

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

Peter Hammill

It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.

Peter Coyote

I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.

Michael Hastings

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.

Michael Kinsley

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

John C. Calhoun

I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico; so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers.

C. S. Lewis

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Jane Smiley

'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.

The governor's always been playing a complicated game because, although I assume he checked off on the deal, he then denounced his own deal almost immediately.

Ron Turner

The good news is we have plenty of time almost a month, before our opener,

The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

Anna Chlumsky

Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.

Annette Bening

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

Aaron Paul

On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

Andrea Riseborough

My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual.

We've been preaching to the girls that we've been in playoff mode since last Monday (when Rutland went back to practice after defeating cross-town rival Mount St. Joseph). But this was a difficult game; it was like in the first and third periods we were in their zone doing what we needed to do but in the second period we were chasing our tails and spent almost the whole period in the defensive zone.

We've been playing really good hockey over the last couple months. Once our forwards get working down low, there's almost no stopping them. When they're working hard, we're a tough team to beat. We roll four lines, our depth is something that's going to help. It's a matter of us getting hot at the right time.

We've been planning it...the idea came up as far back as March. We almost had to shelve it for the year, looking for a great place to have it.

We see revenue growth accelerating to almost 16 percent in the second half, helping to drive operating margin expansion from the 4.5 percent recorded in first quarter 2000, and the 5.4 percent that we expect this quarter, to 6.3 percent and 8.2 percent in the third and fourth quarters respectively.

We see it with almost every movie that comes out that features a certain type of animal. People see the movie and see wonderful dogs do great things, and really having a strong bond with their people, and it looks perfect. It's a relationship with a pet that anybody would want.

We're talking about some wide and powerful areas and I think that Bell and Nynex calls cover almost a quarter of the country. And the other combination involved California and Texas, the two biggest states in the country, so there are some parallels there.

We're talking about huge numbers of people fanning out all over the city in almost every neighborhood.

We've been lucky since I've been here. Almost every rookie we've drafted has made the team, but it's going to definitely be tougher this year.

We've been coming here almost as long as they've been having it.

We've been a streaky team. We had a nice start last night in our win over Maria Carrillo and almost let it get away. We made a lot of shots early. We knew Windsor was a tough team. They are well coached, and they didn't quit. I think they will be a factor in their league.

We've been around long enough to know that defense gives you a shot to win any game. We've done a pretty good job of almost demanding it from everyone else this year.

Alfonso Cuaron

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.

Yvette Girouard

The defense was there, but we just never got the clutch hit all weekend. We out-hit almost every opponent and lost three games. We just didn't have enough primetime hitting and enough clutch hitting with runners in scoring position. The team played hard, but it just didn't happen today.

Alber Elbaz

Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.

Arlo Guthrie

Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.