Practically Quotes

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.