Almost Quotes

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

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

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.

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.