Famous Quotes & Sayings

I would always play the striker, so I would be running down the field back and forth almost the entire game, and man by the end, that was quite a workout.

Johann Lamont

I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.

Tony Kanaan

I guess I'm going to have to do it all the time. When you win you find that extra strength. It's unbelievable. I tried to do (the push-ups) one-handed. I almost fell with my nose in the floor.

If we play solid baseball, we can play with anybody. We've got to play almost perfect baseball, which is tough to do every day.

If we have had (a recession) or are almost out of a recession, you can see this light at the end of the tunnel. The opportunity for moves on the upside are pretty high.

Adrian Mutu

If we have a chance, even if it is almost evaporated, to qualify, we have to play seriously and not give up hope.

Harry Redknapp

If we had won today we could have almost put it to bed because it would have shattered the other teams. We've got to pick ourselves up again.

If we didn't have these guys to help us, we wouldn't be able to have these baskets. Just imagine trying to fill 94 baskets. It would almost be impossible. That's why we appreciate everything that these guys do and we appreciate them.

If there were to be six classes, we would be in the largest class and still play schools almost twice as big as us. Penn, Ben Davis, Carmel, Warren Central, they will always have an advantage. It is the way it is.

Apolo Ohno

I got too far forward with my skates. I lost a lot of speed and almost went down.

Claude Julien

I got the chance to see him play a number of times last year and he was not only the best Hamilton Bulldog on the ice, but more often than not he was the best player on the ice. He's a natural center, but we're very comfortable sliding him in on the wing as well. Chris is a really good two-way player who can play in almost any situation.

Lee Iacocca

I gotta tell ya, with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene.

David Cronenberg

I got my first credibility acknowledged here when I was a young filmmaker, ... I almost feel that my career and the festival's career have ascended in synch, in lock step, because the festival has gone from an interesting concept, as the Festival of Festivals, to being recognized as a brilliant concept and a unique one.

Dawn Ostroff

I got more phone calls about that moment on the Emmys than almost anything else in a long time.

Bronson Arroyo

I got lucky again. I'll just keep hacking. I really just couldn't believe where the pitch was. It was almost identical to last time. I thought he was going to throw me away and it was still kind of middle-in a little bit.

Gary Gray

I go to almost all of their games and some of their practices. I've got a good relationship with the players and some of the coaches. It's a good environment there.

I got my hands on him a few times. I almost knocked him down a few times. It was great. My whole job was to beat him up.

Jim Kelly

If they don't come back, it is not the same school. It's a different Queen of Peace High School. It's the whole leadership. This woman is inspiring. This woman is a wonderful leader. Almost the entire faculty supports her.

If they can do it, they will. For companies that have American backing, it's almost a requirement that they start to list in the U.S.

If they have an old 8-SEER or 9-SEER unit that's 15 years old, going to a new 13-SEER or 14-SEER unit would almost cut their power bill in half.

George Brett

If they stay within the organization, the obvious choice is Frank White . The thing is, if you hire him, it's going to be very difficult to fire Frank White if things don't go well. He's a local guy. He played at the academy. And he made such an impact on this community. He was a great player. God, it would be tough. You'd almost be saying, 'Frank, you've got five years or six years or 10 years.'

If we come back on Monday and there is no new hurricane and Wilma has not done any damage to oil and gas production, then I think traders will be selling almost in relief,

I have heard from thousands of Hoosiers on this issue and they almost unanimously feel this is the right thing to do for the families of our fallen heroes and the funerals of all Hoosiers.

Geoffrey Canada

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

Graham Moore

I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it.

Grace Park

I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I doubt it. I think most of my roles I've gotten have very little to do with my ethnicity. I don't feel that's a limiting factor for my career.

We let it get a little tight ... We were almost up 20 or 21, I think, and had a few turnovers and missed a few easy shots there, but the kids held their composure and finished it up there at the very end.

We returned to an almost normal situation in Ile de France.

Alcee Hastings

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

Alan Dundes

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Alain de Botton

It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'

Erik Erikson

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.