Almost Quotes

I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her!

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.

I figure it's almost like a balance. We're eating these wonderful collard greens and turnip greens which are so medicinally good for you and, OK, so what if it has a little ham hock in it?

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.