I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a…

— Edward P. Jones

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

— Francis Collins

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around,…

— Banks

My favourite designers always create a strong silhouette, like McQueen and Tom Ford and Alaia. I like structured things that you can throw on,…

— Liberty Ross

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

— Robert Dallek

It's almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides.

— Bill Luther

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan,…

— Jolene Blalock

If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been…

— John Cena

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

— Yogi Berra

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of…

— Farnaz Fassihi

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is…

— Kara Swisher

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with…

— Margot Kidder

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

— Eileen Brennan

With *NSYNC, we shopped our deal for a year in America, sang a capella in everybody's office, then moved to Germany for almost two…

— JC Chasez