Almost Quotes

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

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.