Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It’s almost maddening.

When I first read the story ‘Guts’ in workshop – my fellow writers that I’ve been meeting with for almost 20 years – they laughed; they didn’t have any kind of shock reaction.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I’d scared myself alive.

No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it’s almost a mirror, and from others it’s a matte surface.

I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That’s not for me.

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent,...

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.

I’m a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love ‘The Office’ – I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.

Alan Moore’s writing is almost novelistic. It’s very intricate and wordy and smart.

Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it’s not healthy.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I’m almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

It’s almost a problem how much I enjoy my work.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Tribes have the potential to provide almost 15 percent of the country’s electricity with wind power, and have 4.5 times the solar resources to power the entire U.S.

I’ve got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I’ve taken better care of my illness.

Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word ‘work.’ It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a...

When I work in the theater, you know you’ll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you’re breaking bread with everyone every day.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It’s at the point now where it’s old.

I came away from ‘Saturday Night Live’ feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn’t...

I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you’re working on a play that hasn’t been done before.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it’s like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature...

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that’s what I’m chasing.

It’s almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.