Quotes with it-almost

Quotes 161 till 180 of 433.

  • Ralph B. Perry I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
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  • Salvador Dali I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Douglas Adams I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Arthur Hailey I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Anthony Wayne I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Bryce Courtenay I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Shelley Winters I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
    Shelley Winters
    American actress (1920 - 2006)
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  • Bunker Roy I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Ben Marcus I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Anne Rice I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Busy Philipps I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • E. E. Cummings I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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  • Bill Plympton I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Bethany McLean I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Burton Hillis I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It is just in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
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