Almost Quotes

Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them? — Emmett Shear

Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor. — Omar Hamoui

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals. — Sheri L. Dew

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. — Kenneth Patchen

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker ... I've gotten into some curious situations ... — Jamie Wyeth

Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates. — Idries Shah

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic. — David Gemmell

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind. — Fred Rogers

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. — Simone Weil

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams — Hugh Walpole

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence. — John Olver

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. — Wilson Mizner

The way she felt almost delicate when she was pressed up against him like this. Almost fragile. Almost safe. Almost like a princess. — Marissa Meyer

It's starting to hurt, Billy said, almost like he didn't want to interrupt. A thin — Michael Grant

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous. — Alphonsus Liguori

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. — Gottfried Leibniz

I think I have almost everything I could ever want. I have my family, and I have a lot of love in my life. — Danny Wood

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong. — Michael Faraday

Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise. — John Irving

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal. — Esther Williams

I feel a joy so strong it's almost painful - a knife's edge of joy. — Christina Baker Kline

I became famous almost before I had a craft. — Farrah Fawcett

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies. — Linda Sunshine

YouTube can sometimes be really discouraging. When I first started doing it, I almost stopped doing it. — Bethany Mota

Leo almost jumped out of his tool belt. He turned ... and mentally kicked himself. He just had to invoke Adidas, the goddess of off-brand shoes. — Rick Riordan

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. — John Bright

I have also tailored my happiness to fit,' I cried out. 'But I have grown, and now my happiness is too tight. Sometimes it almost strangles me ... — Andre Gide

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. — Gary Oldman

A living. Without Jonny, Student almost fell to pieces. — Richard Branson

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible. — Ezra Taft Benson

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose. — Larry Wall

The prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me. — Tony Danza

When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over. — David Ayer

When you think about it, being trained by a Gladiator is almost as good as being trained by the SAS. — Dave Franklin

I feel hornier than a dog who almost got his balls snipped off. Shit, man. Your face is gorgeous. Have you always been this fine specimen? — Tijan

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. — Rick Kaplan

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony. — George G. Williams

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. — Douglas Coupland

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. — Brenton Thwaites

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing. — Gary Player

Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody. — Mike Comrie

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns. — Jenny McCarthy

We almost always forgive those we understand. — Mikhail Lermontov

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from. — Mahatma Gandhi

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. — Thomas Carlyle

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning. — Benjamin Bloom

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it. — Aaron Tveit

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anne and I have now been married almost 32 years, and I am the luckiest husband in the world. — Tim Kaine

J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian. — Roger Fry

The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again. — Zero Mostel

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall McLuhan

In the end we are almost never happy or unhappy because of what happens to us; we are one or the other depending on the humor that flows inside us — Paolo Giordano

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world. — L.M. Montgomery

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone. — Meg Cabot

Odd names: Winter, Autumn - they almost sound as if someone just made them up. - Dubb — Richard Due

They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention. — Rainbow Rowell

Waking up in a room with no natural light does something to a man. no windows. I'm almost afraid to die. I fear my soul won't make it out. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Almost every girl in the world says what they really want is a nice guy, but only handful really mean it. — Heather Havenwood

We almost never speak
I don't feel welcome anymore
baby what happened, please tell me? — Taylor Swift

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job. — Alexandre Dumas

I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything. — Angela Lansbury

The thing suppressed as an intrusion," Eric said, "is almost always worth looking at. — Rachel Kushner

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's so still she can almost hear the thrum of the cosmos, its pulse trembling at the edge of perception — Michael Allan Scott

She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine. — Anonymous

What you think repeatedly will happen almost certainly. — Debasish Mridha

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive. — Alice Waters

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire. — Erykah Badu

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for. — Gavyn Davies

It is almost abnormal to think of a life without increase — Sunday Adelaja

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess. — John C. Maxwell

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness. — Mark Mirabello

He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing. — Gail Carriger

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. — Tabitha King

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing. — Anne Desclos

She beams at me and it's almost enough to make up for the fact that I'm harder than trigonometry right now. Almost. — Trish Doller

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions. — Moby

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items. — Paul Sweeney

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. — A. N. Wilson

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner. — Tom T. Hall

Indeed, it is almost a rule that the more simple and commonplace something is, the more difficult it is to understand it. — Jack Henry Abbott

It is almost always better to listen and understand than express opinions to annoy. — Debasish Mridha

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations. — Albert Ellis

Almost everything people do is artistic. That doesn't make it art. — Macaulay Culkin

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women. — Stieg Larsson

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul. — Eric Clapton

Almost fifteen months he's been gone, and every day I wake up, I still don't believe this is really happening. — Blake Crouch

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven. — Andy Hargreaves

But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless. — Louise Penny

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another. — Amy Dickinson

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell. — Lois Crisler

Indeed, the power of words has gone to man's head in more than one way. To define has come to mean almost the same thing as to understand. — Alan W. Watts

I almost exclusively wear skinny jeans. I'm terrified of any other cut of denim. — Lauren Conrad

Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing... — Charles Dickens

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published. — Christopher Morley

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. — Madonna Ciccone

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. — George Monbiot