Almost Quotes

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

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.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

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.