Almost Quotes

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.