Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deflationary pressures are building in China. In the December survey input prices have dropped for the second month in a row but output prices are almost matching the decline.

Definitely, it's a Navy town. It's almost like playing a game in Annapolis, except the weather's better.

Debbie was meek, mild, soft-spoken, almost whispering. She didn't say a swear word.

Deep Sea 3D. The camera is almost totally impractical.

Dario Argento

'Deep Red' (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset. It was cut by almost an hour in some countries.

Willie Brown

Dede is more dedicated and focused on things she cares about than almost anybody I've ever met. She makes a maximum effort from her own resources before she makes a request of anybody else. She's very bright. And I love the fact that she's tough as nails, and totally straight. Bulls -- is not what she likes to be exposed to or steps in.

DDT almost wiped out the peregrine falcon and the bald eagle before the 1960s.

Competition for these people is very fierce. It's almost like the dot-com era.

The technology has been used in architectural construction in Europe for almost 20 years. But it's never found a market in the United States, although a river of heat is lost through widows.

Tom Daschle

The tax break the president is said to be proposing is the wrong idea at the wrong time to help the wrong people, ... The plan the president is considering would almost exclusively go to the wealthiest Americans.

The talks in Bangkok were almost on the verge of collapse with the Indian government failing to respond positively to our demands.

The system has an automatic eye and it makes adjustments almost instantaneously. This means we can get the photo registered much faster.

The swelling was almost completely gone. He had full motion and no pain. That's all very, very positive. I really didn't expect it to turn around that quickly.

The swan was found near the same location as previous cases, so protection measures will be almost unchanged.

The three of them together, their stick-handling skills are as almost good as an attacker. I can't be more proud of them and how well they work together. They tear my offense apart in practice.

Brian Lee

The supply almost matched demand in the fourth quarter of 2005, compared to a surfeit a year earlier.

The sun had almost gone down and the storm was illuminated behind the clouds. Now it has passed, cooler weather will return.

Jerry Ferrara

'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.

The sophomores have matured very well and I'm counting on them a lot to really step up and almost take the lead and get some things done this year. Katie has great potential to win tournaments and Denise practiced a lot over the summer and she came back really good. I think she's ready to break out.

David Deutsch

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.

The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.

The term 'budget' has almost become equivalent to a four-letter word. I like people to look at it as a spending plan.

Jimi Mistry

The thing with Ramu, my character, is he wants to come to America to succeed. He almost exploits a perception of society that they see, a perception of him and what he knows and what he can offer.

The thing with 'Pippin' is not to over think it too much. If you try and overthink or plan and over-analyze - it's like with any role really, but this one specifically - you can run into sogging wet newspaper. It's just too exciting to do that. It's nice to be bounced around and surprised at almost every line that comes out of your mouth.

Sandy Alomar

The thing about Carlos is that he doesn't talk for the heck of talking. He expresses what he has to express at the right time. That's the true sign of a man, and that's how Delgado is, too. He and Beltran are almost the same person in that respect.

Jeff Lemire

The thing about Canada is that it's a very large country, and the population's very spread out among different regions. Each region in the country really has its own personality and its own culture, you know? From West Coast to East Coast - wherever you go, it's almost like it's its own country.

Douglas Coupland

The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.

The things that they do I never would have dreamt of - it's quite exciting to see that. It's almost like a string of crackers - you light the first one but what happens after that is anyone's guess.

John Glover

I've lived in L.A. for almost 15 years now, and I've gotten sucked in a little bit to that success game that's played out there, and I wasn't enjoying my work.

I've never been scared to go up. I like taking contact because I think I almost finish better with contact.

I've been around basketball for almost 40 years and I've never seen back-to-back 40-point games like that. It was then that I thought I had something special.

John Kasay

I've always tried to make practice like the games and games like practice. NFL games are often very emotional the energy, the momentum. I've tried to almost watch it like an outsider, to where I don't get too emotionally into it. Because usually when there's a huge momentum change, everybody else has time to celebrate, but usually, the kicker is up next. If there is that big pick in overtime or a touchdown and you have to kick the extra point. You take the opposite tack and ramp all that back down.

Adam Hughes

I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.