Top 100 Mostly Quotes
#1. I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.
Frazier Glenn Miller
#2. Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
Lara St. John
#3. In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#4. True, men were mostly useless, but they served their purpose: trash removal, child rearing, and breeding.
G.A. Aiken
#5. People who say that vampires don't care about anyone except themselves are mostly right - but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.
Patricia Briggs
#6. The boy smiled
mostly at Amy. "Sorry, her heart belongs to Ian Kabra," Dan said, except that something in her expression made him realize her heart didn't belong at all to Ian right now.
Peter Lerangis
#7. Her fear was gone, not only mostly, but completely, because it had been sustained by an illusion that was no longer part of her reality. The
Ted Dekker
#8. Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.
Madeleine Vionnet
#9. I do really believe that beauty comes from within, mostly how you feel about yourself and how you express love of yourself, but also in the form of nutrition.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#10. Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
Douglas MacArthur
#11. People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.
Isabel Paterson
#13. Fears are undetected robbers, stealing from our present, robbing us of our future and are mostly rooted in our past! EL
Evinda Lepins
#14. Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne
#15. I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs about things I don't experience firsthand, but most of the time it's about relationships - things that are going on in my head.
Meiko
#16. I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.
Stephenie Meyer
#17. I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.
Idris Elba
#18. Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry ...
Ned Sublette
#19. Ginger beer these days is mostly the sort of chemical-infused broth that pins children to the ceiling.
Fennel Hudson
#20. I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.
Stella Young
#21. Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
Joanne Harris
#22. The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.
Susan Sontag
#23. I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.
Daniel Tammet
#24. I'm mostly pretty quiet on the weekends. I either read or visit friends or go hiking or something like that.
Troian Bellisario
#25. I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.
Roger Deakin
#26. Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
Tom Peters
#27. The problem is, there is absolutely nothing "fun" about falling in love. Nope. Mostly it just makes you feel sick and crazy and anxious and nervous that it's going to end miserably and ruin your whole life. And guess what: Then it does.
Jess Rothenberg
#29. First book There are seven of them, haikus mostly but rhyming ones, too. Not enough for a real book until I cut each page into a small square staple the squares together, write one poem on each page. Butterflies by Jacqueline Woodson on the front. The butterfly book complete now.
Jacqueline Woodson
#30. Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
John Green
#31. I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.
Lauren Conrad
#32. What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
Stephen Malkmus
#33. I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.
Karrine Steffans
#34. From the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman
Charles Dickens
#35. I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
Molly Ivins
#36. What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want
someone to notice she was there.
Mitch Albom
#37. Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
Wilbur Smith
#38. We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.
James Altucher
#39. I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.
Yngwie Malmsteen
#40. Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.
Poppy Z. Brite
#41. I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
Andy Summers
#42. There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands ...
Simon R. Green
#43. I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.
Joan Jett
#44. I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson
#45. Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.
Neil Gaiman
#46. We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.
Josh Thompson
#47. His presence made the air crackle with electricity, mostly because of all the spontaneous ovulating going on when he walked in.
Darynda Jones
#48. I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
Wendell Berry
#49. I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.
Elizabeth Hand
#50. Some people would never forget certain people, a few people would remember everyone, and most of us would mostly be forgotten.
Joshua Ferris
#51. You're just saying that so I'll kiss you," I replied.
"No. I'm sayin ' it 'cause it's true. Though, I'm also sayin' it so you'll kiss me. But mostly I'm sayin' it so you'll fuck me.
Kristen Ashley
#52. Is mind melting your power?"
"No, mostly I give orgasms." Cam wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Lots and lots of mind-blowing orgasms.
Stacey O'Neale
#53. Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.
Brad Renfro
#54. I mostly eat plant-based, so give me an avocado or something, even late at night, and I'll be happy.
Nikki Reed
#55. Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.
Patricia Briggs
#56. I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.
Agnes Denes
#57. As we talked I thought about him being gone. I thought about washing my sheets. I thought about the likelihood of him wanting to see me again. Mostly I thought about organizing my books alphabetically and dancing by myself to George Harrison songs.
Kendra Grant Malone
#58. This book probably makes it seem as if I hate myself and everything I do. I mostly just hate every person I've ever *been*
- Greg Gaines (CHARACTER), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews
#59. The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.
Noam Chomsky
#60. I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.
Janet Evanovich
#61. Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.
Crystal Renn
#62. -"What do you think people want, if it's not greatness and to be remembered for all time?"
-"Mostly? I believe people want to eat a good lunch, and then take a good piss.
Barbara Kingsolver
#63. Even someone like Mrs. Bonnaventura, who had lived a mostly blameless life, when ushered into the awesome presence of the Creator of the infinite universe and also of the butterfly, would discover ten thousand fearsome new layers of meaning in the word humility.
Dean Koontz
#64. May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.
John Wesley
#65. I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
Jewel
#66. I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
Jane Haddam
#68. Frugal is an old-fashioned, mostly unused word and frugality is is an old-fashioned mostly unused virtue that has been waiting for hard times to come back. The Scots have another word for it - canny.
Keith Smith, Hard Times Handbook, 1984
Keith Smith
#69. A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.
Morgan Matson
#71. I am especially interested in shadows and light that are changed by branches or leaves. So that is mostly what I watch when I am up in the trees. I watch the shadows, I watch the lights, and I watch the leaves move in the wind. On
Ned Hayes
#72. How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
Kathryn Harrison
#73. I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.
Colm Toibin
#74. Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?"
"Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding.
"What was she doing here?" Max asked.
"Getting humiliated, mostly. Especially there at the end.
Jim Butcher
#75. Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.
Virginia Postrel
#76. Anymore the old seasonal benchmarks were mostly nostalgia. We
Peter Heller
#77. India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.
Bernhard Goetz
#78. Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
Max Beerbohm
#79. With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
Vanessa Lachey
#80. My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
Larry David
#81. Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.
Alex Berenson
#82. The old woman took the umbrella, gratefully, and smiled her thanks. "You've a good heart," she told him. "Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go." Then she shook her head. "But mostly, it's not.
Neil Gaiman
#83. Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.
Beth Riesgraf
#84. In spouse, I mostly hear "S.mouse," the name of Chris Lilley's blackface teenage rapper in Angry Boys. And
Augusten Burroughs
#85. But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.
Alasdair Gray
#86. The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing.
Michael Card
#87. Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#88. But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a fortune in electrical and electronic equipment. We had no fancy equipment and did not miss it.
Maureen Johnson
#89. History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
#90. I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street.
Ransom Riggs
#91. I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.
Linus Torvalds
#92. I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.
Daryl Hall
#93. I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.
Lena Headey
#94. Don't you go to the movies?"
"Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.
Charles Bukowski
#95. Sunlight and shade,' his oma had commented once. Jathan liked that, mostly because shade meant that even though things were dim for a time, the sun was still there, just on the other side of the barrier.
Tricia Goyer
#96. From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
Pat Metheny
#97. I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
Suzy Bogguss
#98. It was after sex, when there was still heat and mostly breathing, when there was still touch and mostly thought ... it was as if the whole world could be reduced to the sound of a single string being played, and the only thing this sound could make me think of was you.
David Levithan
#99. The brightest sun of the art mostly rises on the dark horizons of the deep unhappiness.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.
Isabella Rossellini
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