Almost Quotes

I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.