Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Schmeling

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Menachem Begin

The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.

Matthew Bourne

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

Paul Haggis

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.

Paul Hawken

Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'

Patrick Collison

In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.

Patricia Polacco

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

Peggy Noonan

Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He's the president; this is history. But we seem to have come a long way since Ronald Reagan was regularly barked at by Sam Donaldson, almost literally, and the president shrugged it off.

Ruth Ozeki

There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.

Madylin Sweeten

I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.

Pico Iyer

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.

Padgett Powell

In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

Regina Brett

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

Ryan Coogler

If I hear about a tsunami that hit Asia, hundreds of people have lost their lives, and you see it and you hear about it, but you still brush your teeth, still have to go on with your day. But let you get information about one person who you're close to or you're intimate with, it has an almost paralyzing effect.

Raymond Burr

I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost perfect assimilation, so everything I eat is assimilated, not lost.

Rick Rubin

Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.

Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.

Magic Johnson

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

Well over a hundred million people live within a two-and-a-half hour radius. That is almost forty percent of the population of America.

We were going to have to close a school. We were going to have to eliminate sports. There were no choices when you're looking at almost 1$ million deficit in the first year.

We were getting tons and tons and tons of reps, ... to where it almost seemed...

Monica Wright

We were sitting there thinking how we both almost went there.

Today, the IT manager is under pressure from many, many different fronts. He has the challenges of budget where almost 80 percent of the IT budget is spent just on running the services that they have in place today -- with the cost of electricity being the second highest consumer of that budget and labor costs being the first.

Sally Ride

Today, the astronaut corps is almost 25% female, ... and I want that to continue to rise.

Michael Griffin

To make a decision to work in the field of space science is almost the ultimate in delayed gratification.

Thomas Boswell

Time begins on Opening Day . . . (when) we know that something fine, almost wonderful, is about to (happen).

We have a front coming in almost every single day, with very few breaks in between these systems.

Jim Calhoun

We will review the film. The films we have right now are inconclusive. The early reviews show a little different thing than what was indicated. I thought there was a flagrant technical on our kid, yet I almost got one of the punches in the face. ... I saw two of the punches being thrown.

We wanted to move beyond toe-dipping and really dive in. Almost half of the 41 million Hispanics in this country watch only or mostly Spanish language television, and we want to bring that audience to ABC.

Patterson Hood

We wanted to make a record that was strictly song-oriented and wasn't attached to a bigger narrative. We almost had more of a list of what we didn't want than what we did want.

Ray Mabus

We've got SEAL teams in the field that are very close to net zero in terms of energy and water, so they can stay out almost indefinitely without being resupplied.