Almost Quotes

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For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a song… — Unknown Author
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably… — James Taylor
When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor. — Matt Groening
The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that… — Ruth Reichl
What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time… — Thom Yorke
I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too.… — William J. Clinton
There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this… — Neko Case
I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush… — Stephenie Meyer
It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a… — Joseph Priestley
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
I almost envy people who say whatever they want. — Kate Bosworth
After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the… — Carl Sagan
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. — Florence Nightingale
How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our… — Unknown Author
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction,… — Edith Wharton
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what… — Mary Wortley Montagu
I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically. — Bobby Fischer
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant.… — Israel Albert Horowitz
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because… — Jamie Zawinski
Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if you're a programmer… — Joel Spolsky

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