Almost Quotes

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

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

I die in almost every film I've been in.

Almost every week, someone's mad at me.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

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

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

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.

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.

When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.