Almost Quotes

To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.

I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property "without just compensation." The basic model of an unconstitutional "taking" would be if the government threw you out of your house.

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.