Almost Without Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

• Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life… — Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
• What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in… — Michelangelo
• Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality. — Wassily Kandinsky
• Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without… — Baldassare Castiglione
• I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very… — Carl Sagan
• There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy… — David Ogilvy
• The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. — Tom Peters
• I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. — Peter Ustinov
• For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. — Gertrude Stein
• Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he… — P D Ouspensky
• For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel… — Barry Lopez
• It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness. — Raymond Chandler
• [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public… — Antonia Fraser
• His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He’d done it… — Brandon Sanderson
• Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can… — Chuck Klosterman
• Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so… — Booker T. Washington

Who Wrote These Almost Without Quotes

41 authors contributed a total of 45 Almost Without Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Almost Without Quotes by Gertrude Stein
• 2 Almost Without Quotes by Carl Sagan
• 2 Almost Without Quotes by Booker T. Washington
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Michael Palin
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Maria Montessori
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Jawaharlal Nehru
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Richard Whately
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Barbara Mertz
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Michelangelo
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Wassily Kandinsky
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Baldassare Castiglione
• 1 Almost Without Quote by David Ogilvy
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Tom Peters
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Peter Ustinov
• 1 Almost Without Quote by P D Ouspensky
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Barry Lopez
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Raymond Chandler
• 1 Almost Without Quote by William S. Burroughs
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Antonia Fraser
• 1 Almost Without Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Almost Without Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau