Famous Quotes & Sayings

I look up at the banners in our gym almost every day at practice and we've been open as a school since the 1970s and to see six, now seven, (district) banners and to know the girls have five of those, that's pretty special.

Mark Messier

I look up at the banner and I don't see a No. 11 with my name on it. I see all the things and all the people, my family, my parents, so many people who put me in this position to have my number retired. To me it's almost like a highlight reel when I look up there or a flashback of my life in some regards that I can look up there on any given day on any given moment and have something reoccur that was so special.

Sven Eriksson

My dream is the same as your dream, and all the fans and the players - to win a big tournament. We've gone out of two tournaments on marginal, almost nothing. In eight months, we start the big party again.

My assistant is my Sidekick. Just today the battery died because I forgot to charge it last night and I almost lost it.

Wayne Coyne

Music - music that moves you - usually comes because something horrible has happened to you. It's cathartic. I think music does that better than almost any other art form, because most of our lives are about things that don't work out.

More than 500,000 private shareholders in Italy, around 50,000 in Spain, almost 30,000 in France and more than 20,000 in the Netherlands clearly demonstrate that the T-Share is the first real international share for the retail investor.

Catherynne M. Valente

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.

(Moore) has an unbelievably tough job because he's an inside linebacker, so he's in on almost every play, and he's played a lot at fullback so he's taken a beating there. He's been quietly plugging away, but he's also a difference-maker. He's made big plays every game on both sides of the ball. He's extremely fast, and just a great football player.

Kathleen Sebelius

More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.

Money is very important. It is almost impossible to live without it and not everything in life can be bought and today's result was testimony to that.

Men almost always wind up in a better situation after divorce. Women wind up in a worse situation.

Carl Edwards

My hat's off to Mark Martin, ... He almost won this race. It was only the tires that beat him; he had the best car.

My husband died just two weeks before the storm of a recurrence of throat cancer. I'm almost glad it happened before the storm, because this would have been a terrible blow to him. He was not as tough as I am.

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it's a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer's market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together.

My father's originally from Buxton (N.C.), and he loved those geese flying overhead. His favorite were the Canadian geese. He could go out there and honk just like one. And on the day of my daddy's funeral, when the hearse pulled up our driveway, a flock of Canadian geese flew overhead in a V formation, honking away. I could almost reach up and touch them they flew so low.

John Burnside

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.

No other state's doing anything like this. It's growing government. It's almost like (creating) a fictional district.

Now, we are such a young team, it really helped to see the leaders last year. We have to lead by example in our training. We have to work that much harder. I'd say that I'm a vocal leader. It's a whole new atmosphere for the freshmen, and the transition can be difficult. It can almost be a maternal role, too.

Now that I look at it, I had a wonderful game. I almost had a triple-double. I did everything that I had to do for my team, and it showed in the stats.

Now that companies know what the worst-case scenario is, they are asking themselves, 'could we survive this?' ... Almost every company out there is rethinking what they are doing.

Now tall Agrippa lived close by, - / So tall he almost touched the sky; / He had a mighty inkstand too, / In which a great goose-feather grew.

Never brag on an employee, because as sure as you do, that person will let you down almost immediately, in the very area you bragged on.

Next week is big. You have something coming out almost every day of the week that's important.

Near the last known position of the Andrea Gail, the winds were blowing 60 miles an hour for almost 24 straight hours. The peak wave height there was about 75 feet.

Neil betrayed our trust in so many different ways that it is almost impossible to describe.

Obviously, this was part business model and part environment. The growth we've had, and the model we have in place, allows us to perform well in almost any kind of environment.

Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been . . .

Mel Stottlemyre

Nobody's ever had the nerve to say to me, 'You stink' or you had a bad year. ... But I've seen it in the papers. Not in those words ... but that obviously comes from higher up. That's out of my control and that hasn't bothered me, but unfortunately it bothered, uh, I still (think) it's (why) we lost Zimmer. After all, I almost got fired in the midseason. I don't know (how close it was). I only know what was said and (written), but I would assume it was probably pretty close.

Given gasoline is such a small component of the household basket in Japan, it should be having an almost negligible impact on sentiment.

Given all the death we had seen, it was almost hard to believe. But there were some close calls.

Rob Enderle

Given the fact that the desktop market space is predominately Windows, the results show an unusually high degree of dissatisfaction with the existing product and . . . a willingness to move to something else -- almost anything else -- to relieve their pain.

Getting someone from the government to talk is almost impossible.