Almost Always Quotes
429 Almost Always quotes by 346 unique authors
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
— Tabitha King
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The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family…
— John Hodgman
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Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because…
— James Morcan
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Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.
— Magnus
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I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
— Jerry Della Femina
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I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer…
— Peter York
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A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.
— H. L. Mencken
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Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under…
— Eugene Delacroix
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You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material…
— Stella Adler
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The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
— Stella Adler
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Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.
— Amy Dickinson
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Bad choices almost always result from making a choice out of fear.
— Jon Fitch
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I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always…
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people…
— William O'Neil
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Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem…
— Mark Crispin Miller
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I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.
— Jen Lancaster
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Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted…
— Antonin Scalia
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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.
— Jeff VanderMeer
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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
— Edward Gibbon
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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
— William Glasser
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