Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Gray

We have some of these teams that are made up entirely of professors. We have two teams that are made up almost entirely of high school teachers. We had a team that was all police and court workers. It's a time to get together with your friends and that's typically the people that you work with so we have these weird little bunches of people.

We carry dollar bills. It's amazing what an American dollar bill will do in almost any country.

We do that almost every day. I have two or three presentations a week.

David Vitter

Wendy and I grew up in New Orleans, and every place we know and have so many wonderful memories of, is almost all under water,

Loretta Young

We must resist the temptations to be very wasteful of simple things, tossing them aside as of no consequence, in a world of almost frenetic concentration on material success.

We got the result we wanted. It still wasn't a complete game for us. Our special teams need to be better. They almost cost us.

Jeffrey Sachs

We give away tens of billions to Brazil, or to one place or another, without thinking. But in those days, to give even a tiny amount to Russia was viewed almost as anathema by many parts of our own society and our political leadership, whether it was the Bush administration or the Clinton administration.

Daniel Alfredsson

We get the lead three minutes into the third and it's almost like we tried to protect it too much, that we were in too defensive of a mode. It's tough to turn the switch back on.

We get more inquiries from California kids than anywhere else. California and Texas, I?d say, make up for almost 50 percent of the inquiries.

We get all the points at our meets because of him. He wins the high, triple and long jumps, and the 200 at almost every meet. That's 40 points. We scored 63 points last week. You do the math.

We gave up 21 turnovers and 20 offensive rebounds. You have to be almost perfect everywhere else when you do that and we weren't. They just outworked us.

Tim Brady

We can almost see ourselves doing the same thing because they did it,

We are not quite there yet. We still have a lot of work to do. You can always use a little more practice and have a little more effort. We will get there. We are almost there.

Mario Monti

We had excellent, almost daily, cooperation with the DoJ.

We had done a good job scouting them. Our focus all week was on Keokuk, but this was a fun game. It was almost bigger to the community than it was to us. Things are just going our way right now.

Mark Turgeon

We didn't establish Paul or Kyle. We were almost 10 minutes into the game and (George Mason) didn't have a team foul. We've gone through Paul all year, and we didn't do that tonight.

We didn't do Medicaid because we determined it would cost us almost as much to apply as we spent.

Marsha Blackburn

In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.

Mark Zandi

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.

Martin Parr

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

Martin Filler

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography.

We made Buchanan sweat it out for almost 80 minutes of the game. The coach only subbed a few players and he never took out his key players. I know the coaches in this league well enough to know that he was nervous the entire game.

We have a strong family base. We talk almost every day.

We have now checked and it seems almost certain that the president no longer plans a hunger strike at least tomorrow as we thought earlier ... though some of his colleagues may.

Frank Bruno

We have not turned down anything, and that's just it, ... Almost everybody that has asked for a proclamation is getting a proclamation, and it's getting out of hand.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

Maya Angelou

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

The president called this the largest reconstruction program in the history of the world, but when it comes to housing, the support is almost nonexistent, ... He's just handing out land.

Joe Bastianich

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

The quarter was phenomenal. It was another in a long line of outstanding quarters by a company that really in almost every way is separated from its Internet peers.

James Howard Kunstler

The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a joke, but a sick joke, a horror movie. But I'd rather stay involved and do what I can to make this a better place than move to the south of France and enjoy the good life.

Those are tragic incidents but you have to put them in context, ... We have six million contacts with the public a year. We arrest almost 400,000 people a year. And you're talking about three incidents.