Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Moss

Lance and I were talking, and it would have been an amazing end to our college careers and the beginning for hopefully a long MLS career. But I'm almost positive he'll be taken in that supplemental draft in a week or so.

Vic Braden

I was calling double faults on girls from Russia I'd never seen before in my life, ... For a while it got so bad that I go scared. I literally scared me. I was getting 20 out of 20 right, and we're talking about guys who almost never double-fault.

Lauryn Williams

I was a little bit nervous about the exchanges. But I think they were almost excellent.

Bill Belichick

He made a great catch. That was a huge play. Changed the field position, put us in position to run the clock out. ... He did what he was supposed to do. Tom read it, laid it out there, and Bethel ran it down. I mean, we always tell Tom just throw it out there as far as you can and make him run for it. He can't overthrow him -- he almost did -- but Bethel ran it down.

He loved language and found a medium to have to express himself with. That was one of best things. Whenever we would go visit my family, almost every occasion I would ask dad what his latest poems were. A lot of times he would have a work in progress and read it and sometimes ask for comment on it.

We can make this a very special season, or we can almost be looked at as somewhat of a fallout ? a team with a great season, but weren't able to win the big games at the end.

We can do like 100 shirts in almost 20 minutes.

This was one of the first 'wow' papers. Almost immediately, people started calling up asking if they could get copies of this new operating system.

This was not an election stunt. All of the contenders in the race for prime minister would have almost certainly made an identical decision.

Today, it takes almost exactly the same amount of time to travel by train between Albany and New York City as it did in the 1950s,

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay.

Danny Meyer

Today, it's almost the outlier if people are not photographing what they ate and then sharing that in real time.

Whatever it is, ... it'll be something no one's ever seen before. That's what they do to you. You prepare all week, and then it's almost wasted effort because when the game starts, you're looking at something they've never shown.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray

Jeremy Jones

Whatever growth there is in solar, it's almost always done at the state level. All of the states that have strong growth in solar, have strong statewide initiatives.

Johnny Depp

There is a kind of strange shorthand that it's almost impossible to explain, but it's been there since day one. I've actually had crew members come up to me after watching Tim and I talk about a scene or something and the guy says, 'I watched Tim and you talk for like 10 minutes, and I have no idea what you said, I couldn't understand a word of it.' With Tim it's just much more emotional. I can see it in is eyes, the way he tilts his head a certain way. Or he moves his hands and I can just feel it, you know?

There is no compelling reason today for these businesses to remain together. Almost every strategic decision regarding AOL has been wrong.

James Geary

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.

Within the capital spending sensitive Information Technology arena, the lack of follow through to even higher levels of growth has been very disappointing to the investment community. Yet, one needs to recognize that tech spending has been coming back for almost two years now and is not only now emerging from a long slumber, as many seem to think,

We try to provide most of the cultural and military direction of the world, but we steadfastly refuse to consider the perspectives of those who would live beneath our shadow. I want to illustrate the fact that we are all almost exactly the same, and so the only thing we can and should really fear is the mirror on ourselves.

David Murray

We've been thinking about it all season. I think all five of the seniors will make the state tournament. I'm almost positive. We all worked really hard together, and we practiced hard. I'm confident.

Jim Calhoun

We just have superior numbers of people. Not even superior people because Robert gets them to play as well as any guy in this league. What he's done is instill, in my opinion, a work ethic that's as good as any team in our league and almost any league in the country.

We're projecting technology earnings are going to grow almost 40 percent this quarter and that's on top of a very, very strong 1999. Energy company earnings obviously will grow close to 80 percent, but that's on top of a weak '99. So there are companies that should have leadership. After all, if you look at the companies that issue profit warnings last week; Maytag, McDonald's, I mean I don't think the future of growth of American economy is washing machines or cheeseburgers.

We traveled almost 3 billion miles in space. We visited a comet, grabbed a piece of it, and it landed here this morning. It's an incredible thrill.

We toured the winery. That was really interesting, and I think almost all of the ladies bought a bottle of wine.

We're one of those teams that doesn't have very much room for error. So we have to be at our very best, which is sometimes almost extremely difficult to do. We have to be 80 to 90 percent efficient every night out. And to this team's credit, we have played pretty good basketball. We've only had a couple games when we have not been quite as sharp.

Howard Schultz

We're on a collision course with time and we can't wait. If people want to make me the villain, that's their prerogative, but I'm here to tell you that we've tried for almost two years to meet the elected officials halfway and we're not getting anything back.

We're now spending the greater part of our time, almost all of our time, going pole to pole and house to house.

When he went in 2001, it was almost exclusively military people. He was trying to convince them of the need for reform. Now, if he's bringing technocrats, he's trying to give examples of how reforms could take place.

When he was coming in, I was curious to see his reaction. But he came in the game, got in the huddle, called the play, no hesitation, no stuttering. It was almost strange how calm he was. That just kind of reinforced the feeling that he was just born to do this.

When he's staring at you, it's almost like you have a halo behind you." ()

Paul Davis

When he's aggressive, it forces them to guard Drew a little harder rather than sag on the post or sag on Mo or Shannon. We're almost a completely different team on offense when he does that.

Carolyn See

What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.