Top 100 I Almost Never Quotes
#2. I almost never say what I really think. Sometimes I'm so full of shit my eyes could turn brown.
Emma Chase
#3. 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.
Trisha Yearwood
#4. Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
#5. I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of course, I almost never leave my home. Jonas is a great guy and was a big help to me.
Danny Bonaduce
#6. I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#7. I almost never danced, as much as I wanted to. I was crippled by some childhood fear of my own body.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#8. I almost never have a plan for myself ... I'm not ambitious in that way.
Martha Plimpton
#9. I almost never like people, even in tiny doses. But I never get tired of being with you.
Laini Taylor
#10. My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.
Ron Reagan
#11. It's not that I enjoy surprising everyone I know; it's more that I almost never know where I'm going before I actually get there.
Seanan McGuire
#12. I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.
Anna Netrebko
#14. I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
Carter Burwell
#15. I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.
Robert Motherwell
#16. Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.
Anne Lamott
#17. I almost never respect men. They're like flowers
all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
Barbara Kingsolver
#18. I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.
Rachel Zucker
#19. It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles - physical, intellectual, spiritual - that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.
David Rakoff
#20. I almost never get recognised in the street.
Lena Headey
#21. I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.
Nelson Shanks
#22. Look, if I don't flirt with you, you should take that as a compliment. I don't always respect myself, but I almost never respect men. They're like flowers all showy, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground. But you I respect. I always did. From the first day I saw you.
Barbara Kingsolver
#23. My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.
Donald Trump
#24. One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.
Simon Hoggart
#25. 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.
Chuck Klosterman
#26. I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.
David S. Rose
#27. I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.
Jerry Saltz
#28. 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.
Laurie Metcalf
#29. 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!
Tom Of Finland
#30. I almost never let reality get in the way of a good story.
Elizabeth Bard
#32. It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.
Zora Neale Hurston
#33. 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.
Galen Rowell
#34. I almost never use B.C. and A.D. to describe time periods. I use BKCWC. Before Kirk Cameron Went Crazy. That's how I judge time. *
Jenny Lawson
#35. I almost never hit a shot all out, and I make a conscious effort to swing my long clubs just as I do my wedges. Keep this in mind when hitting your fairway woods.
Ernie Els
#36. I almost never slept deeply anymore
as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.
Cynthia Kadohata
#37. I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.
Wynton Marsalis
#38. I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think.
Karin Dreijer Andersson
#39. 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.
Tod Machover
#40. To be honest, I almost never use the dictionary. I just don't like dictionaries. I don't like the way they look, and I don't like what they say inside.
Haruki Murakami
#41. I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.
Marian Seldes
#42. I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.
Geena Davis
#43. I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
Edmund White
#44. My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.
Jenny Offill
#45. I haven't had time to think about a relationship! I literally have not had a boyfriend in almost five years. I've never even hooked up with anybody I've worked on a movie with.
Shailene Woodley
#46. There is a shortage of hard R. It was the story and the character. He's never played a character like this and so that was the thing that really won him over. The story itself, on the surface - Patrick and I love actors almost in a geeky kind of way.
Todd Farmer
#47. I've realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It's something quite irrational and instinctive.
Vasily Grossman
#48. I haven't seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost; I never shaved. So I don't really know what I look like.
Richie Havens
#49. I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.
D.H. Lawrence
#50. Mom's a hypochondriac, too, so the best part was that every week she would get the disease that the medical shows were dramatizing. I'll never forget, they did an episode on sickle cell anemia, which as far as I know, is almost exclusively an African-American affliction.
Kathy Griffin
#51. I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.
Horton Foote
#52. So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I
have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.
Herbert Hoover
#53. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
Ben Mendelsohn
#54. In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.
Dave Barry
#55. Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works.
Ryan Holmes
#56. I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.
Evangeline Lilly
#57. Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.
Rachel Hartman
#58. I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.
M.F. Moonzajer
#59. I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.
John Green
#60. It was from a very young age that I fell in love with this wonderful artifact
the turn of the first page is almost like a sacred ritual to me. Whenever I walk into a library, it is never without some degree of reverence.
Lang Leav
#61. I grabbed a Twizzler and almost cracked a tooth biting off the stale ends. I stuck my makeshift red straw into my coffee and took a long sip and was rewarded with a dazzling smile from Maddie.
"Eew. That is so gross." But she was laughing as she said it.
"Yup, something's never change.
Lisa Roecker
#62. I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.
Saul Leiter
#63. There was a spark between us that I'd never felt with any of the other (four) guys that I'd kissed. When we were making out, it was almost impossible for me to keep my hands off of him, and kissing him made my stomach flip over.
Morgan Matson
#64. I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago
#65. Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
Tom T. Hall
#66. To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.
Rosie O'Donnell
#67. I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge profit, but nobody gets hurt. And therefore I get a lot of freedom.
Woody Allen
#68. I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.
Isobelle Carmody
#69. I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.
Roselyn Sanchez
#70. 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
#71. One corner of his full mouth tipped up as he watched me watch him. Then the slightest arching of his left brow, and my knees almost gave beneath me. I had never seen anything so beautiful in all my life.
Darynda Jones
#72. Peanut butter and lamb chops were not foods that had ever been a significant part of our life before pregnancy. In fact, my wife almost never ate either.So where did these craving come from? I concluded it's the baby, ordering in.
Paul Reiser
#73. I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.
David Sedaris
#74. Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
William S. Burroughs
#75. I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.
Nick Offerman
#76. If I have any advice for you, it comes down to this: never imagine you know more than you do. Because the truth is, you almost certainly know less than you think.
Tim Lott
#77. When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.
Matt Kemp
#78. I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.
Steve Erickson
#79. On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost every one. Perhaps because I never wanted to disappoint my father.
Nicholas Sparks
#80. Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.
Suzanne Collins
#81. When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.
Dolly Parton
#82. Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
Emily Dickinson
#83. Isn't it true (I thought), that one is almost never present, or rather never fully present, and that's because we have only a halfhearted, chaotic and slipshod, disgraceful and vile relationship with out surroundings.
Witold Gombrowicz
#84. After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.
Cecil B. DeMille
#85. To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.
Stan Lee
#86. I lived for almost a century in the skin of a man, and I never managed to feel altogether human either.
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#87. People almost never look as bad on the outside as I do on the inside, but that's sort of nice because it reminds me that even when I'm having a bad hair day my ponytail is still more aesthetically pleasing than Gwyneth Paltrow's bile duct.
Jenny Lawson
#88. Warner's head is on my lap. His face is smooth and calm and peaceful in a way I've never seen it and I almost reach out to stroke his hair before I remember exactly how awkward this actually is.
Tahereh Mafi
#89. Should I be in distress? In a meadow? You mean if the cows organize some sort of attack? I have extensive experience with cows. They almost never do that." "Forget
Deanna Raybourn
#90. Adults almost never like doing their jobs from what I can tell.
Holly Smale
#91. Don't worry', he said. I almost laughed when he said that. Don't worry. It's only the people who've never had to worry about shit in their lives who say that.
Dinaw Mengestu
#92. I hope you achieve what you two are trying to do," Rick said. "Just remember, the answer is almost never where everyone else has been looking. And the answer is almost always covered up by some kind of danger.
Rich Hoffman
#93. It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#94. One is almost tempted to say ... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most convenient fiction which, as we have seen, is convenient both to experimental and theoretical chemists.
Charles Coulson
#95. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, I am the boss! I am the boss!
Tina Fey
#96. I want to be buried in those depths in an unmarked grave. I want to get lost in the gray fog of his gaze and never find my way home. I seriously almost fucking swoon. And how often does that happen? Yeah, never.
C.M. Stunich
#97. Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.
Jorge Paulo Lemann
#98. I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
Larry Norman
#99. Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.
Danny Elfman
#100. There was never a moment ... when I forgot my hatred of you. It's almost like ... a violent hatred that resembles love.
Kaori Yuki
