Almost Quotes

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist.

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

The word that almost makes me throw up is satin; damask makes me throw up.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.