Almost Quotes

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Almost everything is like a machine.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Almost everybody embraces life.

The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience.

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.

I almost feel like I'm unoffendable now. I can roll with whatever.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

I almost never listen to the radio.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.