Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damon Galgut

Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

Bill Clinton

Almost one year after the devastating tsunami struck the coast of Sri Lanka, real progress has been achieved: Ninety percent of children are back in school, epidemics have been prevented and transitional shelter has been provided to almost all internally displaced people.

Almost one-half of our salaried team is here today.

Almost nothing we do makes a profit except for the awards show.

Almost nothing has been done, they need to get together.

Almost no one had heard of (George Mason) before on a national scale. Even on a regional level, people barely heard of it.

Almost my whole junior varsity squad moved up. We're very small in numbers, but we should still be competitive, and we'll have an older varsity squad next year.

Almost my whole infield is not where they usually play. But I sure can't take anything away from (Dunne), she's a great pitcher. We're struggling a little bit right now.

Almost like the government has collapsed here, ... There's just no law. Everything is diluted.

Almost like metal. They just blow me away!

Michael Milken

almost like a classical Greek story -- a rise to a very powerful position, and then the fall.

almost like a calling card, a challenge -- 'I'm here and I'm coming back.'

Daunte Culpepper

Almost like a bad episode of 'The Twilight Zone'. It was crazy.

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 half of them are designed that way.

Almost from the start, people were asking for furniture, and things were coming in so fast that we needed more space. So, Ernie put up at 40-foot by 50-foot metal building next door. He paid for it himself. We opened that space around Christmas 2005 and since then have filled it, too.

Almost five million viewers for curling, in a country like Italy where football is the favorite sport, is completely unexpected.

Brent Smith

Almost every year there is one package that goes out, and this year it is yet to be nailed down. There's a bunch of people talking about different things, but there is no definitive hip-hop package out there. We'll know probably in the next four weeks whether a package is going to form or not.

Almost every year, it's what happens in the consolations that determines the eventual team champion. That will probably be the case this weekend.

Emily Oster

Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in my pregnancy it felt like all of my time with my doctor was focused on how fat I was getting - so fat!

Almost everywhere I go, people ask me if we're in a housing bubble here in San Diego. My answer is yes, but the bubble isn't going to burst.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.

Kurt Vonnegut

Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile.

Almost every track meet I've been at I've had the same feeling. You have some great efforts and some really neat surprises, and then you have those events where you see a combination of not a great effort or things just don't go your way.

Mahatma Gandhi

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it

Almost everything that's made conventionally is also grown organically.

Almost everything organic goes to the Twin Cities or the Chicago area. It used to be really frustrating to me to live in the largest city in this organic producing state and to have producers say they wouldn't come to Milwaukee.

Casey Neistat

Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.

Almost everything is done. Most teams have gotten them (new homes).

Koby Clemens

Almost everything has gone a couple levels up, in every aspect of the game. The speed of the fastball, breaking balls, the balls that are hit at you at third base. But I'm learning a lot of things. The sky is the limit from here.

Almost everything a person needs for identity theft is actually faxed to us on a daily basis.

Jack Zipes

Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Hugh Johnson

Almost every quarter I can remember people have come up with reasons to explain away earnings gains. The truth is that earnings are doing better, and the hope is that, because earnings are improving, companies will begin to hire and spend money on technology.