Almost Quotes

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.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

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.

I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.