Quotes having the keyword Almost
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.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: add, almost, another, any, biographer, collection, creative, engenders, fact, facts, fertile, give, more, much, our, respects, suggests, than , us A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
by William Wordsworth (Poet, English , born in 1770) keywords: acting, almost, blunt, causes, combined, discriminating, exertion, force, former, mind, multitude, now, powers, reduce, savage, state, times, unknown , voluntary I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
by Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, American , born in 1970) keywords: almost, been, black, blue, contacts, furniture, intimate, life, own, some, somewhere, spot , too I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
by Steven Wright (Comedian, American , born in 1955) keywords: almost, back, coffee, instant, microwave, oven, put, time , went One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
by Zakk Wylde (Musician, American , born in 1967) keywords: accountant, alcohol, almost, bad, came, close, day, done, even, grand, guys, how, months, out, plug, pulling, said, saw, she, two, went , wife You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.
by Martin Yan (Celebrity, Chinese , born in 1948) keywords: almost, anything, everything, foundation, good, right, soup, stock, strong , tastes I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: almost, anybody, anything, beautiful, does, dream, expects, instead, opera, oxford, place, remember, sing, speaking , wonder About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
by Frank Yerby (Author, American , born in 1916) keywords: above, almost, broadened, continent, fifteen, goes, golden, half, miles, mud, new, orleans, out, river, sea, slowly, strikes, sun, until, very, water, where , yellow 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.
by Shigeru Yoshida (Politician, Japanese , born in 1878) keywords: almost, america, amity, century, community, concluding, entered, first, japan, passed, since, states, treaty, united , world I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
by Muhammad Yunus (Economist , born in 1940) keywords: almost, bank, bankers, fell, lend, money, over, poor, proposed , went 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.
by Steve Yzerman (Athlete, Canadian , born in 1965) keywords: almost, because, everyone, everything, fast, flies, get, happens, ice, moment, much, never, real, see, sense, too , where I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (Statesman, Spanish , born in 1960) keywords: after, almost, been, bush, clear, deaths, during, fiasco, firm, listen, more, mr, occupation, position, than, very, war , will I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.
by Dweezil Zappa (Musician, American , born in 1969) keywords: almost, anybody, cover, creed, down, guitar, learn, magazines, mean, offense, play, players, really, see, sit, something, songs, those , why The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
by Philip Zimbardo (Psychologist, American , born in 1933) keywords: almost, anyone, between, cross, evil, forces, good, induced, line, pressured , situational These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.
by Mortimer Zuckerman (Publisher, Canadian , born in 1937) keywords: almost, area, benefits, better, days, down, economy, employees, even, every, fewer, government, hours, off, pay, security, these, thrive, time, top , working People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
by Daphne Zuniga (Actor, American , born in 1962) keywords: almost, apathetic, continue, homelessness, ignore, maddening, poverty, real , trapped It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.
by Edward Zwick (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: almost, benefit, come, country, diamonds, discovered, every, found, gold, making, matters, natural, oil, rarely, resource, resources, resulting, results, riches, rubber, seems, these, time, tragedy, valuable, which , worse And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.
by Terry Zwigoff (Director, American , born in 1949) keywords: almost, constructed, fiction, film, get, half, knew, lot, manipulated, narrative, rather, sense, some, staged, strong, things, those , ways
