Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Belafonte

The idea that you work in the house of the master is almost in itself its own opportunity to do some mischief and make a difference, but when you are in that place and you help perpetuate the master's policy that perpetuates oppression and pain for many others, then something has to be said about it, ... And the master in this instance, of course, was the president of the United States.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like hari kiri. I mean, no doubt, I intend to live to 100 and go down in history.

The diversity of this neighborhood keeps growing. The area used to be almost all black, now the majority here are Mexican.

Although GM has almost $17 billion of cash, it could run through that amount very quickly in a strike scenario, accelerating the time frame for a bankruptcy filing.

Susan Griffin

Although almost a month has passed since the nine lotto players presented the winning ticket, the four potential claimants have not even articulated a claim by filing a writ or statement of claim,

A lot will depend on who's the first company up. You may almost have an insipid auction taking place among the companies trying to be first.

A huge section of the U.S. economy is down. It's as complicated as the rescue efforts in New Orleans; it's all these different pieces. You have to get electricity restored, find out where your employees are; it's almost a mind-boggling exercise.

Annalee Newitz

A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET.

Jonathan Kozol

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

Tyra Banks

A girl like you that is not necessarily super tall or has a model proportion has to be almost perfect and you nearly fell off this runway.

Johnny Depp

You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow

Joe Gibbs

You want to keep the ball, make first downs. You're trying to give yourself a chance to run and, every now and then, mix in the pass. When you lose a football game, you can say almost anything about it, but we thought we were trying to do smart things. Finishing off the game, that's a big deal, and that's what we've got to do.

You win a lot, you're in the spotlight almost constantly. I think anybody that has long-term success in a world as competitive as major college athletics is going to have some criticism.

You will see almost every market that features RFG (reformulated gasoline) with MTBE switch to a gasohol blend by next May,

You've got to play sound defense. This is one of those running backs where the play might start to the right, but it might end up on the left. He's almost Michael Vick when he has the ball in his hands.

You've got to have a mind-set to play your own game, almost like you're behind. Guys out here are pretty good. Someone can come from four or five behind pretty easily.

You've got to hand it to them when we're playing almost 25 players and their bench is limited. They kept coming at us.

You've almost got to approach it like a state championship game. I knew the way (North Port swings) the bats, we'd better get as many runs as we could.

Andrew was almost the same intensity as this storm, but Andrew was small. This is a huge storm so ... (Floyd) is much more dangerous than Andrew.

Charles Prince

Andrew has built an impressive record of success, leading initiatives that have made Dow a large and profitable company that is positioned for further success in diversified global markets. Nearly two-thirds of his almost 30 year career at Dow has been spent in the Asia Pacific region, giving him a tremendous depth of knowledge that will be immensely valuable to us as we position ourselves for continued growth in this and other regions of the globe. We look forward to his contributions.

Aisha Tyler

And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.

And quite frankly, if we look at the makeup of the House and the Senate and the White House, if we don't have bipartisan help, it's almost impossible to see any program that benefits workers.

Peter Davenport

And (it) stopped, almost stock-still, in the sky to the east of our location. People were getting out of their cars, ... It was casting a red light ... all over the theater, all over the airport, as far as we could see.

Oliver North

And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

Karen Smith

And sooner is preferable to later, ... by fall, depending on the issues, it can almost be too late sometimes.

Naveen Andrews

and is very close to him and loves him. But he's almost a mouthpiece for that kind of questioning What kind of God is that that would do these things?'

Terry Zwigoff

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.

George Duke

And of course, all the musicians come here, so it's like a time when we can socialize and be together and you meet friends over the years. It's almost like family here.

and now that the PNM has taken this country almost on the edge (the verge) of developed country status we can't be worried, we trust the good sense of the people of Trinidad and Tobago. So there is no need to worry.

David Heyman

And now I'm thinking we almost have to start a lobbying effort just to be treated on an equal basis.

And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes.

Jack Nance

All those pictures are some of my favourite movies, and they've remade almost all of them and they aren't nearly as suspenseful as the originals.

Julia Leigh

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.