Almost Quotes

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.

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.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.