All Quotes

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.
‐‐ Arjun Rampal

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.
‐‐ Jerry Costello

Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
‐‐ Shigeru Yoshida

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
‐‐ Robert Ballard

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.
‐‐ James Buchan

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
‐‐ Jack Horner

Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home.' Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in.'
‐‐ Erin Cummings

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
‐‐ Vin Scully

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.
‐‐ Don Cornelius

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
‐‐ Ron Perlman

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
‐‐ Sam Harris

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
‐‐ George Gaylord Simpson

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
‐‐ Iris Chang

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
‐‐ Rich Lowry

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But I'm not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. I'm interested in the person who can make the right decisions.
‐‐ Kenneth C. Griffin

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
‐‐ Tom Peters

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
‐‐ N. T. Wright

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.
‐‐ Peter Buck

Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.
‐‐ Colin Jost

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
‐‐ Andrew Cohen

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.
‐‐ Allan Savory

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
‐‐ Albert Pike

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.
‐‐ Jim Fowler

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

Almost all words do have color, and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her, too.
‐‐ Gladys Taber

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
‐‐ Daniel Espinosa

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.
‐‐ Steve Albini

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
‐‐ Hugh Prather

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.
‐‐ Joan Allen

Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
‐‐ Robert Staughton Lynd

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.
‐‐ Michael Kinsley

Almost any job can make us better human beings if we do it with passion.
‐‐ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.
‐‐ Oren Peli