Almost Quotes

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

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.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

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.