I Quotes
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“I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.”
“I almost never draw a completely naked man. He has to have at least a pair of boots or something on. To me, a fully dressed man is more erotic than a naked one. A naked man is, of course beautiful, but dress him in black leather or a uniform - ah, then he is more than beautiful, then he is sexy!”
“I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.”
“I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.”
“I almost never get recognised in the street.”
“I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.”
“I almost never go out. I suppose everyone tries to ignore the passing of time: some people by doing a lot, being in California one year and Japan the next; or there’s my way—making every day and every year exactly the same. Probably neither works.”
“I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.”
“I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.”
“I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.”
“I almost never shoot people.”
Source: More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six
“I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.”
Source: Kira-Kira
“I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.”
Source: Robert Motherwell
“I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.”
“I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.”
“I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.”
“I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'”
“I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.”
“I almost rely on other people to say, "Hey, you ever hear of this band?" And I'll say, "Oh, I've never heard of that!" And I listened to them and thought, "What the hell?"”
“I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel”
“I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.”
“I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.”
Source: White Oleander
“I almost shat my pants. Literally, the floor was almost covered in my shat.”
“I almost shouldnt be in Limp Bizkit, its like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.”
“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!”
“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! With the rational respect that is due to it, knavish priests have added prostitutions of it, that fill or might fill the blackest and bloodiest pages of human history.
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, September 3, 1816]”
Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
“I almost spit it out, but at the last conceivable second force myself to just hold it in my mouth long enough to turn the cup around and read the name and order scratched on its side.
Green tea. (Instantly less disgusting now that I know this.)
Hayden. (Instantly more embarrassing.)
"This must be yours then," a low, rumbling voice says behind me and I turn to find a large expanse of chest in front of me, a grey Purdue T-shirt clinging damply to it.”
Source: Great Big Beautiful Life
“I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'”
“I almost stopped teaching entirely. The worst thing for me is contact with students. I like universities without students. And I especially hate American students. They think you owe them something. They come to you ... Office hours!”
“I almost tell him that I'd never be able to do something like that, just take out my instrument and begin playing on a street corner. But it feels to personal. Yes, I'm shy, but why bring it to his attention? I'm too shy to talk about how shy I am.”
“I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.”
Source: Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.
“I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.”
“I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.”
“I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams”
“I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it is not marriage that takes the loneliness away, but when both within marriage honour God and the vows made before Him.”
“I almost took the door off the car”
“I almost took your hatred for me personally. What a disaster that could have been on my part.”
“I almost trust her to burn the bridges while standing at the cliff herself. She hardly agrees to be on the same page as others, either ahead of all or all in a different book.”
Source: The Masquerade
“I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover”
“I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.”
“I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.”
Source: The Hero and the Crown
“I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced - at gun point no less - to listen to every David Barton message.”
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
Source: Selected Letters
“I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around ["I'm With Her"].”
“I almost wished we could spare him the pain of heartbreak.”
Source: Royals
“I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.”
“I alone am man and all the rest divine.”
Source: The Unnamable
“I alone can heal myself, I alone am responsible for it, I alone have the authority and control over my healing, I am answerable to my healing and I alone can do it.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
“I alone had the power to change my life. All I had to do was be brave enough to try.”
Source: The New Beginnings Coffee Club