With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.
Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so ther...
Almost always, things are exactly as they appear. People are continually looking at the painful or boring parts of life with the half-hidden expectation that there is more going on beneath the surface, some deeper meaning that will eventually be unve...
A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something, when you need to be very intelligent indeed. The rest of the time, you need almost an empty mind, where you can let any image in...
I knew my mother's limitations because they formed the marrow of my bones.
I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.
Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.
California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
You can't eat "almost." Even an ant can hurt an elephant.
They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.
Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was.
The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?
Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
Middle Eye: [to Jaguar Paw] Almost. [Middle Eye hits Jaguar Paw with a club] Middle Eye: That is your name. "Almost."
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.
There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
