Almost Quotes

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

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

I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.