Top 100 I Almost Quotes
#1. During our first date,
I wanted to hold your hand so bad
I almost cut mine off
and threw it at you
to see if you would catch it
Colin Gilbert
#2. I figured if I hoped hard enough, you wouldn't stand a chance, that even if you were straight, you'd succumb to my sparkling charm and wit and you'd convert just for me."
I almost choked on the last sip of my wine. "And you'd win the toaster oven," I teased.
"Yes,
Eva Indigo
#3. I don't hate you," I said, and I almost believed it.
Rosamund Hodge
#4. Are you children of God" he asked. I almost burst out laughing, managing to bite mny tongue before it erupted.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#5. I think. I do know that I like connecting to people who really resonate with the music. I guess I almost wish I could just connect with the people who really need it.
Erika M. Anderson
#6. Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed.
Shannon Hale
#7. Oh my God, I . . . I almost got run over by a moped," I said, turning my bewildered stare back on Ren. "That would've been so embarrassing to be taken out by one of them
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#8. 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
#9. I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.
James Brolin
#10. I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
Brenton Thwaites
#11. ... I kept trying to run away. And I almost did. But it seems that reality compels you to live properly when you live in the real world.
Kenzaburo Oe
#12. I almost shit my pants and shriek to high heaven when a loud knock comes from the outside of the car
Belle Aurora
#13. I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.
Richard Ford
#14. I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it.
Rae Earl
#15. When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
Sally Rand
#16. 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 ...
Janet Fitch
#17. What the fuck?" Dima had two guns out, the one in his left hand pointed at X's forehead, the other at the room. "Goddamn it, Mr. Storm. I almost shot you. That would have pissed me off.
Avril Ashton
#18. Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
Iggy Pop
#19. I almost - I almost lost him because I didn't want to hurt you. That was my mistake. It's not a fairytale. Someone always gets hurt. But I'm done hurting him.
Alessandra Hazard
#20. In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?
Scott Fujita
#21. I like the idea of making some friends, of going to the same school for more than a few months, of maybe actually having a life. I started to do it in Florida. It was sort of great, and for the first time since we've been on Earth, I almost feel normal. I want to find somewhere and stay somewhere.
Pittacus Lore
#22. 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
#23. Disgusting. I just found my grandpa's Viagra. I swear, I almost puked from eating so many.
Anthony Jeselnik
#24. I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.
Robin McKinley
#25. Yeah, Pudge is adorable / but you want incorrigible / so Jake is more endurable / 'cause he's so - damn. Damn. I almost had four rhymes on adorable. But all I could think of was unfloorable, which isn't even a word. - Takumi
John Green
#26. 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
#27. I want to feel like I did when Christopher's arms held me away from the harms of the world. That was the last time I ever felt safe, and it was the day I almost died. I've been chasing that feeling for years.
Ginger Scott
#28. 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
#29. I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.
Don McLean
#30. I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood. Do not you think we have? '
'Not half a mile,' was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness.
Jane Austen
#31. There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.
Eleanor Mondale
#32. I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.'
Miranda July
#33. I grab her arms and pull her toward me. Now she has her arms wrapped around my waist and we're chest to chest. She's laughing and I almost want to laugh with her. For a second it feels real and okay. The knot in my gut loosens and I'm not scared to breathe.
Nyrae Dawn
#34. While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
Charles Stross
#35. Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool and silken wind from my grasp.
Chaim Potok
#36. I almost hate to say this, but I am the happiest I have ever been in my life," she told me. "Sometimes it takes going through something so awful to realize the beauty that is out there in this world." Brain
Sheryl Sandberg
#37. He was given a ranch, and two lovely mistresses. 'Imagine, at thirty, I was put out to stud. And we Latins are such drowsy pigs that I almost fell for it.
Warren Eyster
#38. I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head.
Steve Martin
#39. I almost lost you."
"No, never. I would've fought. However long it took. I'd never give up until I was free. You're my life, Jonah. My family, my love, my best friend. Nothing, not even destiny, could keep me from you."
He leans forward and brushes his lips against mine.
"Okay.
J.B. Salsbury
#40. I almost short her once or twice, but the excitement ends there.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#41. Word is actually very busy and strikes me as poorly designed. It's cluttered. There are four different rows, each filled with icons and butters I never use. This reminds me why I dislike Word. I almost always type in WordPress as it's much less cluttered. I'm on an airplane without WiFi.
Mike Cernovich
#42. I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.
Alexander Calder
#43. But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.
Marc Jacobs
#44. I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.
Alex Turner
#46. Honesty.
Sobriety.
My virginity.
No way to regain
the first two, I almost
gave away the last.
Ellen Hopkins
#47. I almost kissed her then, but lost my courage. Boys can be dopes
Stephen King
#48. 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
#49. I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward.
Janet Evanovich
#50. You're so adorable sometimes. I almost don't regret not killing you.
Amy A. Bartol
#51. After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#52. My heart twisted then leapt as he wet his bottom lip just before drawing the succulent flesh into his mouth, between his teeth, and biting.
That's right, bite that lip.
I almost groaned.
Penny Reid
#53. You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.
Saul Bass
#54. I walked the length of the ward, towards the exit with what I imagined to be the stoic, dignified stride of a gunslinger walking away from his last fight, determined to make it outside before I broke into a million pieces, I almost made it too.
Rob Grimes
#55. Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.
Garth Nix
#56. I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock
#57. I almost regret having to tell him this. No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they're capable of all at once.
Cristin Terrill
#58. 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!
Slavoj Zizek
#59. I almost slapped a patient yesterday. Stupid b**** kicked me while I was telling her to push. Talking about she needed something for the pain.
Shakuita Johnson
#60. But that's how it felt, pathetic or no. In a life entirely lacking in romance, that one moment of beauty smote me. I almost brayed a laugh. I'd finally fallen in love, and it was with the entire world.
B.P. Gregory
#61. Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like good. A beautiful thing like this rose: I almost want to eat it, to swallow it whole to replace the beauty I've lost.
Alex Flinn
#62. I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.
JD Era
#63. I almost shat my pants. Literally, the floor was almost covered in my shat.
Chris Colfer
#65. Thank Ra!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah, I'm alive."
"No, I almost jumped in after you. I hate the water!
Rick Riordan
#66. There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.
Ricky Schroder
#67. I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. Im exhausted and I only played nine innings.
Lance Berkman
#68. I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.
Rohinton Mistry
#69. Odette nodded at my notebook, where I was writing as she spoke. 'Do the people in America really want to read this? People tell me to write these things down, but it's written inside of me. I almost hope for the day when I can forget.
Philip Gourevitch
#70. from our dinner guests. I almost blanched just thinking the word guest.
Melissa Haag
#71. The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
John Hodgman
#72. What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.
Ron Rash
#73. L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!
Donald Glover
#74. What can I do? his gaze on me was intense, like I was some sort of love guru or something. I almost laughed out loud at how unqualified I was for that position.
Katrina Abbott
#75. Jack Peyton is HOT!" someone from the audience yelled.
"Toby Klein is HOTTER" a male voice argued, and I almost went into an epileptic fit of disgust at both the words and the tone.
"Now, now," Jack said, raising his hands. "Don't be ridiculous. Mr. Corkin is clearly the hottest
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#76. I almost forgot how gorgeous Adonis is," she [Ava] said, "We should have made him one of us."
She [Ava] wouldn't have gotten any argument out of me, but a strange sound escaped from James, almost like he was growling. "And have to endure another narcissistic blond running around? No, thank you.
Aimee Carter
#77. 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
#78. Until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys.
Charles Dickens
#79. 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
#80. The first time I worked out I almost threw up. I did not feel good at all. My friend said, 'You have to get past the first month, you're going to feel so much better.' And she was right: After about 30 or 40 days, I saw changes.
Tori Kelly
#82. I look back over my career and I almost pissed it away. I got a second chance and I've made the most of my opportunity. I play every game like it's the last game of my career.
Albert Belle
#83. I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.
Cy Young
#84. 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
#85. I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.
Dan Fogelberg
#86. I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.
Murray Bartlett
#87. 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
#88. What are you staring at? You saw me in my underwear just a few hours ago."
He made a choked sound and smiled - his characteristic grin transformed into something else. "And I almost dragged you into bed then too.
Noelle Adams
#89. I had kissed a girl in the second season of 'Community,' but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling's teeth out.
Gillian Jacobs
#90. When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.
Jonas Armstrong
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.
Martin Short
#94. I almost died, this past June.
But I didn't.
End of story.
Jose N. Harris
#95. I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing, sometimes, that father and mother hadn't been so dreadfully particular about such things. -- Jo
Louisa May Alcott
#96. If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
Nate Ruess
#97. I almost forget that she still hates me, despite how hard I've fallen for her.
And I've fallen.
So hard.
I've hit the ground.
Tahereh Mafi
#99. 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
#100. For a moment, I almost felt sorry for her. Then the bitch blasted me with her water magic, and I got over it.
Jennifer Estep
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