Almost Quotes

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

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

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

It was so cold I almost got married.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.