Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime you work hard and you see that something is removed from you that you worked so hard to accomplish, you kind of get discouraged, ... It took me almost two years to get back to where I felt like I was at that time.

Jodi Kantor

In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.

Mark Lawrenson

In international football you need a cup-tie manager. It's almost a part-time job for me,

Anthony Kennedy

In his personal relations he was unpretentious to the point of being casual, almost as if to put friends and colleagues at ease with his vast knowledge of history, remarkable grasp of the law, and a mind so precise he was at once formidable and delightful.

Roman Polanski

In consideration of the horrible things that has happened to the poor man I can almost understand.....or if the (girl) now woman felt justice needed to be served...Having grown up during Nazi Germany, having his wife, child and friends horrendously murdered could negatively effect probably anyone.... I feel sure he does not enjoy knowing he is a fugitive, but with the unpleasant things that have happened to him for seemingly no reason ..I doubt he feels he would get a fair trial...or simply hasn't the man suffered enough? Robert

In China, we are selling the PHS handset. We're selling almost one million right now, and these handsets are very cost effective, especially for low-end customers.

John Berger

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.

In Cody, it's almost impossible to support a family. We need to make it so (teachers) can survive and have some stability.

Cynthia Kadohata

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

Jose Antonio Vargas

In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.

In many respects, the public is reacting to the Edwards pick in almost the same way that they reacted to his rival, Dick Cheney, in 2000.

David Lewis

In many companies that's almost part of being a team player.

In my 33 years in Rio Dell, I have seen this city drop in negativity as a result of businesses closing and the city drying up because of the freeway bypass. But we've dealt with that and the city is united. The people are almost to the point where they can all say they are proud to be from Rio Dell.

Paul Revere

In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

In Kosovo our pending inquiries are now almost concerned with the exhumations because we have more than 300 graves and mass graves to exhume this year.

In Japan when you say diesel engine, everyone thinks of rattling, smelly, dirty engines. Demand is almost nil at this moment.

John Updike

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.

In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that is by prosecuting some high-level person. While companies that are indicted almost always settle, individual defendants whose careers are at stake will often go to trial.

Joe Clark

In any event, accessibility is almost as poorly-known now as it was 2.5 years ago when I started work on my book. That's because most 'Web' developers aren't making Web sites at all, since they don't have a clue what valid HTML and CSS means.

Roma Downey

In an interesting way, the operation becomes almost a metaphor for hope and optimism. A little child can have a new face with a smile restored, and suddenly his mother's smile is restored and his father's and the outer family's... and they bring him back to the village and the village is delighted... The ripples and effects of this are fantastic.

Eric Holder

In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.

Melissa McCarthy

In a lot of comedies, they kind of take all the problems away from the women. They give her great clothes, great hair; she almost always owns an artisanal shop, like a cheese shop in Manhattan.

In almost every survey of consumers, they say they don't mind spending money. What they hate is the shopping experience.

In almost every quarter, Dr. King's message is under attack. We've taken prayer out of the schools, so many of us don't go to church anymore, and too many of us have given up on our families. That is not the state Dr. King had in mind as he fought for freedom. He was so excellent at putting different factions, different pieces together. The world is in dire need of another Martin Luther King Jr. now.

In almost all of its collections operations, China is not so much looking at opportunities for stealing things...as devising all sorts of opportunities for you to come to the conclusion that you would be willing to give at least some of these things. It's the mundane, day-to-day contacts that are killing us, not the exotic spy operations.

In almost all cases, consumers end up getting the same level of incentives, which means - do the math - they're getting less for each vehicle.

In all the times I saw him play, I never saw him hit a ball out of bounds. He was an excellent putter and he almost always wore a white shirt.

Alex Ebert

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

Bill Plympton

I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.

I'm not a fool. I know the size difference of the school, but the reality is when I walked in the gym and had three players, I almost went home and cried. You know, what did I get myself into?

I'm inspired to be in charge of a great club. It's getting huge. I'm overwhelmed. I've almost had to quit my other job.

I know there is a difference almost every game. It's not coming easy, though. It's still a challenge, and it might be a challenge until who-knows-when.

Leo Ornstein

I know that there are some people who apparently operate with their eyes on the paper. They are more guided almost by the pattern.