Almost Quotes

• My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

  

  Damian Kulash OK Go
  • Unexpected
  • Imagined
  • Stumbling

• Those are situations where you're almost guaranteed to give up one (run). In fact with second and third with no outs, we just hoped to minimize and maybe give up one, possible two runs. We just didn't want to extend the inning any further than that. To get out of both of those situations without giving up a run was a real boost for us. Offensively, I think it helped give us some momentum to build on.

  

  Vance Law
  • Fact
  • Build
  • Both

• And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

  

  T. Graham Brown
  • Story
  • Characters
  • Almost

• Having this kind of spectrum of sound now, I listen to 'Is This It' and I see us as youngsters and I almost want to have a conversation with the 18-year-old me.

  

  Fabrizio Moretti
  • Conversation
  • Listen
  • Spectrum

• We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Frightened
  • Naive
  • Middle Ages

• A lot of our communication has now become digital, and it does not mimic the natural way we have evolved to communicate with each other, so it's almost like we have this muscle, these social-emotional skills, and they're atrophying, right?

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Communication
  • Become
  • Communicate

• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Dog
  • Human
  • Almost

• Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive' is inspired by the fact that a lot of people are being killed on both sides in Iraq and the average person in the States that I run into is a lot more concerned with how big their TV is. That's pretty weird. I look at my granddad's meticulously clipped headlines from World War II almost daily and I see that every action in that war was a two-inch bold print headline even if it wasn't one of the biggest battles. It was all major news. The scale of this war is a lot smaller, but someone being killed or a group of people being killed might be Page 3 or Page 12 news in the U.S.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Action
  • Bold
  • Average

• We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

  

  Rene Magritte
  • World
  • Miserable
  • Daylight

• If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

  

  Ray Dalio
  • Attention
  • Impossible
  • Possible

• Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Moral
  • Principle
  • Magazine

• I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Question
  • Kind
  • Band

• Only an 'almost,' a 'nearly,' is possible.

  

  Arnulf Rainer
  • Possible
  • Almost
  • Nearly

• When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.

  

  Rita Coolidge
  • Singing
  • Become
  • Happened

• Almost everything is like a machine.

  

  Ray Dalio
  • Everything
  • Machine
  • Almost

• The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's like you use the ingredients, and you use your life experiences that you have.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Always
  • Environment
  • Blues

• ...all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can come over you, out of nowhere, and if it wasn't such a fine feeling, it might almost be frightening. Like there's more love and good thoughts and powerful things inside of you than one body can hold.

  

  Katherine Hannigan
  • Thinking
  • Powerful
  • Might

• I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

  

  Rick Derringer
  • Success
  • Almost
  • Trapped

• I think it's great when people accuse me, almost always falsely, of promoting conspiracy theories, because that shows how effective I am at messaging and how effectively I can use social media.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Always
  • Because
  • Conspiracy

• I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.

  

  Murray Bartlett
  • Almost
  • Avoiding
  • Obsessive

• Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.

  

  Dennis Lindley
  • Agree
  • Probability
  • Demonstrable

• The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.

  

  Winston Groom
  • Passing
  • Backwards
  • Weeks

• My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

  

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  • Father
  • Vision
  • Concentrate

• When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

  

  David F. Swensen
  • Chance
  • Results
  • Reasonably

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