Almost Quotes

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.

I realistically eat every hour and 15 minutes. I watch the clock to see when I eat again. I'm almost upset that I'm not eating now.

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.