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I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years. — Andy Griffith

Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant. — Mikl Paul

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. — A.A. Milne

Lacy truly believed that when you asked a patient How do you feel?, what was wrong wasn't nearly as
important as what was right. — Jodi Picoult

We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of
information science the most expensive asset is knowledge. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Where you come from does matter
but not nearly as much as where you are headed. — Jodi Picoult

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one. — Thomas Naylor

I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity. — Yann Martel

Love is the safest investment in the world; nearly everyone gets out tenfold what they put in. — Clement G. Martin

Merlin nodded gravely. Doing what is right is nearly always simple, Mr. Potter. But it is never easy. — G. Norman Lippert

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty. — Diane Kruger

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit. — H.P. Lovecraft

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery. — P.N. Elrod

It was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet. — Lisa Kleypas

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own. — Richelle Mead

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts. — Stephen Graham

Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than ... " I couldn't think of anything famous with a large number of exits "I nearly drowned! — Alex Garland

People aren't thinking about us nearly as much as we might think they are. — Lysa TerKeurst

I've spent nearly thirty years listening to people sing about broken hearts, has it helped me any? Has it fuck. — Nick Hornby

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest. — Tony Abbott

You nearly froze to death out there, you haven't been fed since the fall of Rome, and I'm evil. — Seanan McGuire

The vast majority of the libraries in the United States today - nearly 100,000 of them - are school libraries. — John Palfrey

Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable. — Dennis Prager

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after. — Gore Vidal

There was no DVR, no Netflix, and no binge-watching. We didn't even have a VCR till I was nearly out of high school. — Susanna Kearsley

I start nearly every day with a workout. — Jesse Metcalfe

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting. — Charles Dudley Warner

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do. — John Steinbeck

Whatever fantasy I had in my head of what Wolfboy looks like, it's now clear I haven't been fantasising hard enough, not nearly. — Leanne Hall

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed. — Graham Stanton

Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something. — Kin Hubbard

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will. — John Hoeven

If you haven't figured it out by now, the words grace, love, and forgiveness are nearly synonymous. — Kurt W. Bubna

You're nearly eight hundred years old and here you are, sitting on our sofa, and you're a vampire who needs our help. Of course. — K.J. Wignall

Among the other enthusiastic dumpers were Russia, China, Japan and nearly all the nations of Europe. — Bill Bryson

She read like a woman drinks water after nearly dying of dehydration. — Shannon Hale

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. — Benjamin Cardozo

And her joy was nearly like sorrow. — John Steinbeck

Her whole system was wired to monitor his survival. She needed him to live. He'd nearly died, and everything inside her was short-circuiting. — Cassandra Clare

Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream. — Rachel Caine

I am nearly twenty-nine, so I pass you there; though I am but four feet, and not likely to grow any more, save sideways. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. — Heraclitus

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven. — Leopold Infeld

We're all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something. — G.K. Chesterton

Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough. — Cassandra Clare

Sometimes love was a tonic. Sometimes it was a weapon. And so often it was nearly impossible to tell the difference — Sarah Ockler

Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside. — Carla H. Krueger

It is nearly impossible.'
'Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing. — Kristin Hannah

A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years. — Gavin De Becker

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. — Gerrit Smith

Um ... Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of my heart, fire of my loins, how I've longed
— Rachel Hawkins

Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question. — Ashleigh Brilliant

In 1997, the government spent $37 billion on military research and development, nearly two-thirds of what the entire world spent on the same. In — Morris Berman

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. — Benjamin Franklin

It was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the spot and cannot even move one's arms. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral. — Oswald Chambers

Face it, dude. You nearly did sex on God's table. You're already shame spiralling big-time. — Chuck Palahniuk

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting. — Jessye Norman

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty
some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman

It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality. — Dale Carnegie

If you ask me, people out of touch with reality aren't nearly as dangerous as lawyers like him who manipulate it. — Elizabeth Chandler

I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

a willow tree was weeping from the heavy rain, a coy pond nearly overflowing. — Marissa Meyer

Well, it's no wonder you nearly managed to freeze to death the way you spend all your energy moving your mouth. — David Gaider

Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die — Lauren Oliver

It is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh. — Rebecca West

There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be. — Jim Otto

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me! — D.J. MacHale

... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids. — Fred Gipson

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin

I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same. — Helena Rubinstein

I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely. — Catherynne M Valente

Working with a green screen is easy. It's just like being a kid. But it's not nearly as satisfying. — Rachel Weisz

Regardless of the shape he took, Cal had a nearly endless capacity for worrywarting. — Caitlin Kittredge

Holding on for dear life, I was overcome with the perfect nearness of him, the ache of human solitude nearly conquered. — Jennifer DeLucy

Customs are generally unselfish.
Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas

If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad — George Orwell

Up close, I see that his eyes are brown. Dark, dark brown. Nearly black.
Sinful. — M. Leighton

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student ... have now been debunked. — D. V. Ager

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. — David Foster Wallace

I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. — Henry David Thoreau

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. — J.K. Rowling

She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other. — Peter Heller

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell

I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. — Ben Schnetzer

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous. — Hyman G. Rickover

quietness has a strange, buzzing hum that can nearly break you apart. — Laura Pritchett

Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me. — Dan John

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family ... they are nearly always seen as victims. — Francesca Annis

Nearly all novels are too long. — Rose Macaulay

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one. — Louis Navellier

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know). — Anthony Hope

One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities. — CrimethInc.

I called Hawk and told him he couldn't possibly, considering they cost nearly double the price of the Choos.
His reply, "Babe," then disconnect. — Kristen Ashley

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. — Che Guevara

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with. — Alan Garner

Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it. — Diana Gabaldon