Almost Quotes

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'

This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance.

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.

We still have a very good core following, and the shows have been almost one hundred percent sold out.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

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.