Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's almost a throwback concept. They're very clean stores. They're wholesome; very much focused on comfort food. They have very much a family orientation; a good mix of families and young kids.

Chris Collins

It's gonna be a tough place for people to come in and win. We feel very fortunate because we know to get a road win in here you almost get a game up in the league cause they're not gonna lose at home.

It's a secret to nobody that both the United States and the Japanese have opposed increases in peacekeeping in Cote d'Ivoire before, almost exclusively because of financial reasons.

It's a safety issue. People are getting in and out of cars. I've seen people almost get hit, clipped, by people trying to shift lanes or shift over to miss the ruts or holes in the street.

Almost like metal. They just blow me away!

Robin Cook

Almost half of them have voted for a new beginning. Despite the climate of fear, the people of Zimbabwe showed that they expect, and that they deserve, a much greater level of democracy.

Almost all those people there are parents and grandparents. Once their kids go, they leave.

Mike Myers

They took almost the whole interior decor - wood for a bar top, wainscoting and even some of the pews. Someone in St. Augustine wants to put up a crab shop on A1A and they want some of that stuff for a rustic look.

It's almost an art restoration. We tend to regard the Frank Lloyd Wright building as one of the greatest objects in the collection.

Diana Nyad

Endurance is not a young person's game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that's almost as strong, but you have a much better mind.

Glenn Greenwald

Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the form of condemning other governments, never their own.

James Jones

Over the past half-dozen years they've spent almost $2 billion in various kinds of safeguards, to make sure that people are registered correctly, to make sure that there's minimum opportunity for fraud on the voting cards, to have as much of a foolproof conduct of the election as possible,

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Paulo Coelho

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

Willow Shields

I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.

One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.

Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

We're a team that has been decimated by the injury bug. I've had bad injury years, but this one is almost beyond comprehension.

We're collecting almost all the aspects of water, including its temperature, flow, duration it's been in soil, where it came from in the atmosphere and how long it stayed.

Jimmy Johnson

We're doing what we need to do, ... It's almost about not losing it rather than winning it at this point. We saw some hopefuls and contenders had trouble in New Hampshire, and I think that's the key. We got off to a good, solid start.

Feist

There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

William Friedkin

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.

The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.

In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

Manfred von Richthofen

Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

Alison Jackson

I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.

Ban Ki-moon

Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

Olly Murs

When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.

We have almost 300,000 square feet of space and mostly only one person in the buildings, besides the pool and the Colby Fitness Center. It's too much territory for one person to supervise.

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.

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.