Almost Never Quotes

151 quotes by 139 authors

• We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used… — Sheryl Sandberg
• Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get… — Linus Torvalds
• Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks… — E. O. Wilson
• In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened… — Dave Eggers
• Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced — Barbara Tuchman
• You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the… — Emily Giffin
• I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring… — Edward Gorey
• ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But… — Douglas Coupland
• One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re… — Carl Sagan
• If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your… — Zig Ziglar
• Stephanie Plum,"I almost never shoot anyone. — Janet Evanovich
• Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late. — Seth Godin
• I almost never shoot people. — Janet Evanovich
• Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough… — Booth Tarkington
• When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee,… — Charles M. Schulz
• When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon. — Brian P. Cleary
• I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was. — Cynthia Kadohata
• Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on… — Mark Vonnegut
• The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go… — Paulo Coelho

Who Wrote These Almost Never Quotes

139 authors contributed a total of 151 Almost Never Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Almost Never Quotes by Carl Sagan
• 2 Almost Never Quotes by George Orwell
• 2 Almost Never Quotes by Eugene H. Peterson
• 2 Almost Never Quotes by Andre Gide
• 2 Almost Never Quotes by Emily Giffin
• 2 Almost Never Quotes by Ali Smith
• 2 Almost Never Quotes by Edward Gorey
• 2 Almost Never Quotes by Zig Ziglar
• 2 Almost Never Quotes by Janet Evanovich
• 2 Almost Never Quotes by Sheryl Sandberg
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Jonathan Rowson
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Charlie Munger
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Mark Vonnegut
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Lena Headey
• 1 Almost Never Quote by John Heilemann
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Reid Hoffman
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Paulo Coelho
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Josef Albers
• 1 Almost Never Quote by J. Anthony Lukas
• 1 Almost Never Quote by George Otis
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Paul Arden
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Chris O'Donnell
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Dave Cook
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Robert Motherwell
• 1 Almost Never Quote by Blaise Pascal