Famous Quotes & Sayings

The children are doing much better in school. I spoke with the custodial parent, and he has told me the grades have gone from failing to almost straight A's.

The market below $12,500 is almost a million units. It's too big to ignore. We think long term that market will shrink a little further. It may be only a half-million units at some point. But with our global position and product, it's a half-million-unit market we can go after.

The main thing to me is knowing he's all right, ... It's a relief. You just don't know how much it is. It's almost like Christmas, New Year's and everything all rolled into one.

The main thing I would be interested in would be the training ... and the equipment they need to do their job. The guys have to ready for almost anything.

The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.

Charles Dickens

The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.

The magic stuff was almost like light relief in a way, but of course it's also quite sinister, ... I learnt a couple of tricks, and I stole a line from a guy who was teaching me. He used to come in and do a few tricks for me, and he'd say 'I am magic!' You'll hear me say that in the piece.

Billy Graham

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Bill Cosby

I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.

The kids came and either did their best or almost did their best and that's all we can ask. I'm ecstatic for them and I'm looking forward to (today) and having some more bright spots.

Their bench played a good game. Almost every team we're going to play is going to have more depth than us, so we've got to get the most out of each player as we possibly can.

The Katrina disaster happened to almost everybody in this newsroom. We're dealing with our own misery as well as trying to tell this story.

The unanticipated uses are almost always the most interesting.

The ultimate question is, do you want a bill that will almost certainly periodically result in higher prices at the pump for consumers?

Bill Gross

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.

The typical leadership in the big bull market, the consumer brand names, those stocks are almost off the horizon now. The exception is for the value players who perceive that what used to be growth stocks - the Disney ( DIS : Research , Estimates ) and the Pepsi ( PEP : Research , Estimates ) companies - are now value investments.

The trouble is, almost all filters today work using simple keyword-matching approaches, when what's needed is something with more natural language interpretation intelligence. Otherwise, any reasonable attempt at defining filters ends up either letting much too much in that you don't want in, or stopping bona fide messages.

James Rothman

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.

These last few days have been consolidation, off of a good employment report and almost six weeks of gains.

These kids need to be careful down there. They're almost on their own there.

These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will follow blindly.

These guys live and die based on whether their calls are correct. They take it very hard when it appears they've been wrong. Like good players, they almost grieve over it.

These guys just made a deal with one of the large online providers of health care over the Internet. The company does over $600 million in revenue and generates almost $80 million of cash flow a year. So, it's really becoming a major player in the health-care information services sector.

These findings clearly show that almost every driver has engaged in a risky behavior at least once in the past six months.

This is ongoing, ... They're almost working around the clock. Everyone's doing a fantastic job.

This is no question, the biggest win as head coach. It's unbelievable and almost surreal.

This is no question the biggest win as a head coach. It's unbelievable and almost surreal. I knew if we kept battling and kept it close we had a chance. Our rebounding was there when we needed it and we got big stops when we needed it. It really came down to one possession and we got a stop.

This is my eighth Worlds and she is 16 and I am almost 26. I feel young but compared to her I feel old.

This has been our No. 1 threat and our worst nightmare for almost two years.

This has, however, since been replaced by a cycle of higher trending growth, underpinned by record confidence; the lowest consumer interest rates since 1983; almost R89bn in personal income tax cuts since 1995; and generally sound macroeconomic, monetary and fiscal stability.

Craig Fugate

This is also the time when surfers will go to the coast, and I will almost guarantee you somebody is going to drown this weekend. Again, use caution.

Paul Provenza

This is a look at a particular world of artists, and when it comes to words, well, that's our currency. In terms of mindset, we'll entertain almost any idea. We're trying to be creative. There's nothing about any given word that's better or worse than other given word. A word is a word.

Scott Rolen

This is a longer process, no doubt. This is a more serious rehab. There it was kind of a healing time, and once I was done healing, then I could just strengthen and come right back. I had no loss of range of motion or anything like that. My range of motion was almost zero after this surgery, so I had to come all the way back.