Almost Quotes

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.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf was shut down and not producing.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.

I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.