Quotes about almost
almost became earliest guitar larger music nature pictures played sang second wandering
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me. Dwight Yoakam
almost body might
Endurance is not a young person's game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that's almost as strong, but you have a much better mind. Diana Nyad
almost condemning depict experts foreign form human love pundits takes themselves
Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the form of condemning other governments, never their own. Glenn Greenwald
almost anymore believes both deny experience mad nobody seems
Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature. Paul Bloom
almost dropped last life sort
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control. Patrick Stewart
almost certainly gives heightens illness perhaps precious state taken
A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious. Norman Foster
almost argue fantasy love order sports
I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end, you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world. Norm MacDonald
almost except express extra form ignore line public society
Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.
almost life people rather
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. Pearl Bailey
almost few man maybe played zone
We played zone maybe a few possessions all year. Everything that we've done has been almost all man.
almost good guys lesser might played team
We played almost well enough to win. We were almost good enough to win. Almost enough guys played heroically for us. But it wasn't enough. If we had played a lesser team, it might have been enough. But the team we played was too good to be almost good enough against. Geno Auriemma
almost good job played snaps
We played 80-some, almost 90 snaps on defense, ... 12 for 31, 51 quarterback rating. We did a pretty good job there. Gregg Williams
almost bone cases impossible microscope needs produce screws surgeon
We produce almost anything a surgeon needs from bone screws almost impossible to see without a microscope to the cases they come in.
almost american-sociologist bush crowd extend foot imaginable matter mindful policies square state sway watch
So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. Todd Gitlin
almost designed job shared windows work
At my first job in the mid-to-late '90s, almost every product was from Microsoft. Everything was designed to work together - Windows for workgroups, shared M drives, etc., etc. Stewart Butterfield
almost bad certainly death developing die flu might people states toll united
Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher. Seth Berkley
almost believe case experience helps share stories studies substitute
While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school. Scott Weiss
almost american-musician creates draws
It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book. Slick Rick
almost death doors human knew life magic mundane physical tendency
I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds. V. E. Schwab
almost aside disposable gets hit incentive interest music nobody pop stuff
In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore. Trent Reznor
almost certain father heart major massive smoking
After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries. Tom Brokaw
almost choose climbing good line pick relatively time types
The types of climbing that I choose to do I'm good at justifying. I do really try and pick things that I'm going to live through. I don't want to die, and I'm relatively cautious. I play with that line all the time. I want things that are very exciting, so much so that they can feel almost spiritual. Tommy Caldwell
almost favorite few good list mention plays politeness
The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones. T. R. Knight
almost becomes bit french love
I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it! Bernardo Bertolucci
almost blushing francis martin modern spielberg steven
What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.
almost generally niro quite talk work
The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true. Ben Mendelsohn
almost charged decides exercises health legitimate medical medicare onto practices prices services
Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65, and on the medical practices of almost all physicians. Medicare decides what is legitimate and what is not: which prices may be charged and which services may be rendered. Virginia Postrel
almost eventually fine finished graduate manuscript published
When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills. Victor LaValle
almost compete gets guys hard mental team won
When you are a young team, it is hard to compete with a team that has won one championship and almost won another. It's a mental thing. It gets into your head, because you know what those guys have done. Antonio McDyess
almost athletic certain developing good quite rewarding society types
Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness. Bill James
almost arena energy jogging late pacing remember runs shows
All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on. Bjorn Ulvaeus
almost burst experience good great later learned life
When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do. Barbara Ehrenreich
almost default love
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.