Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miranda July

There are going to be points of contact. That's just a fact. That it's not inherently bad. In reality, the way that the two worlds interact are often very, very subtle, almost inarticulatable.

There are a number of statistics to indicate that about half of the world's population has yet to make their first phone call, ... And our investment thesis is that over time, almost all of those users who make that first phone call will do so over a wireless phone. Nokia (NOK) indicated yesterday that there are about 520 million wireless subscribers today, and that number is expected to top a billion in 2002. We think it could top a billion and a half by 2004.

The only thing I see there that is really questionable is the $12 million success fee. Success is almost assured.

The phrasing of it is so atypical, almost original. I think it's an important indicator of what kind of justice he might be.

The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

Anna Chlumsky

Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.

Annette Bening

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

Aaron Paul

On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

Andrea Riseborough

My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual.

We've been preaching to the girls that we've been in playoff mode since last Monday (when Rutland went back to practice after defeating cross-town rival Mount St. Joseph). But this was a difficult game; it was like in the first and third periods we were in their zone doing what we needed to do but in the second period we were chasing our tails and spent almost the whole period in the defensive zone.

We've been playing really good hockey over the last couple months. Once our forwards get working down low, there's almost no stopping them. When they're working hard, we're a tough team to beat. We roll four lines, our depth is something that's going to help. It's a matter of us getting hot at the right time.

We've been planning it...the idea came up as far back as March. We almost had to shelve it for the year, looking for a great place to have it.

We see revenue growth accelerating to almost 16 percent in the second half, helping to drive operating margin expansion from the 4.5 percent recorded in first quarter 2000, and the 5.4 percent that we expect this quarter, to 6.3 percent and 8.2 percent in the third and fourth quarters respectively.

We see it with almost every movie that comes out that features a certain type of animal. People see the movie and see wonderful dogs do great things, and really having a strong bond with their people, and it looks perfect. It's a relationship with a pet that anybody would want.

We're talking about some wide and powerful areas and I think that Bell and Nynex calls cover almost a quarter of the country. And the other combination involved California and Texas, the two biggest states in the country, so there are some parallels there.

We're talking about huge numbers of people fanning out all over the city in almost every neighborhood.

We've been lucky since I've been here. Almost every rookie we've drafted has made the team, but it's going to definitely be tougher this year.

We've been coming here almost as long as they've been having it.

We've been a streaky team. We had a nice start last night in our win over Maria Carrillo and almost let it get away. We made a lot of shots early. We knew Windsor was a tough team. They are well coached, and they didn't quit. I think they will be a factor in their league.

We've been around long enough to know that defense gives you a shot to win any game. We've done a pretty good job of almost demanding it from everyone else this year.

Alfonso Cuaron

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.

Yvette Girouard

The defense was there, but we just never got the clutch hit all weekend. We out-hit almost every opponent and lost three games. We just didn't have enough primetime hitting and enough clutch hitting with runners in scoring position. The team played hard, but it just didn't happen today.

Alber Elbaz

Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.

Arlo Guthrie

Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.

Arundhati Roy

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

Anna Kendrick

'The Last Five Years,' we sang almost everything live. When we're in a convertible on the West Side Highway, there was no point - it's not going to be usable sound. But any time we were indoors, we were singing live.

Anna Kendrick

It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.

Artie Lange

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

Andie MacDowell

Oh, all southern women say they're sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don't spread the jam right, you're always sorry. I've had people tell me to stop saying it so much!

Anne Hathaway

I'd resolved to cut my hair for 'Les Mis' and to do it on-screen to make it feel real. And then the morning came, and I was shaking like a leaf. I almost couldn't do my job. When it was over, I went to the darkest corner of my trailer and I looked in the mirror, and I saw my little brother! But eventually I felt like the coolest girl in the world.

Alex Berenson

Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.'

Adam Carolla

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.