Almost Quotes

She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.

Alan Moore’s writing is almost novelistic. It’s very intricate and wordy and smart.

Sometimes you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

We’ve only recently turned the corner on the Sept. 11 attacks being blamed on Jews and Israelis, as well as almost every other terrorist attack, whether in London, Madrid, Bali or Egypt.

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn’t refuse to do another movie.

I wanted to be more hands on. Otherwise, every time you finish acting in a movie you have to almost go and beg people for the next job.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.