Practically Quotes

#1. Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

Elizabeth Hawes

#2. Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But ... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.

Romare Bearden

#3. I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation
which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.

John Wyndham

#4. Astrophysics. 'It's a super-long shot' is practically the motto of our profession.

Marko Kloos

#5. Universities are truly storehouses for knowledge: students arrive from school confident they know nearly everything, and they leave five years later certain that they know practically nothing. Where did the knowledge go in the meantime? In the university, of course, where it is dried and stored.

Terry Pratchett

#6. There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

John Harvey-Jones

#7. A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

Michael Pitt

#8. I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

Mike Tyson

#9. Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

Jerry Bridges

#10. Love and hate are practically the same thing.

Kristin Halbrook

#11. And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

Molly Ivins

#12. Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited - everything. A few people can be like that.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#13. Hawk was a fucking selfless savior, practically a saint. Where were his wings?

V. Theia

#14. Critter: I was fairly relieved when Sea took off on her own. She was wearing some two-sizes-too-small T-shirt, practically forcing my eyes to home in on "the girls," and all I could think was I'm going to turn into a pillar of salt.

Lara Deloza

#15. For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities.

E. M. Forster

#16. In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

Emanuel Lasker

#17. Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

James Nesbitt

#18. Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.

Gunnar Myrdal

#19. This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling ... I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere Have fun, honey.

Deb Caletti

#20. You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business
that takes a lot of audacity.

Lidiya Ginzburg

#21. You're practically begging for it, aren't you?" he murmured.
"No."
His chuckle rasped over her senses. "I like begging, Reagan."
"I'm not going to beg."
He was silent for a moment, his fingers still playing, and she wondered if she'd said the wrong thing. Then he said softly, "Damn.

Kelly Jamieson

#22. We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!

William T. Vollmann

#23. The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

Lysander Spooner

#24. You know vampires and solicitors - practically indistinguishable.

Gail Carriger

#25. She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream ...

Virginia Woolf

#26. I frowned, gaping at the blond in disbelief. "You're the grim reaper?"
Tod glanced at me for the first time, his frown practically etched into place. "You were
expecting someone older? Taller? Maybe kind of gaunt and skeletal?"Contempt dripped from his words like acid.

Rachel Vincent

#27. We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We've practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan ... we're probably more excited that we've ever been about Sherlock.

Steven Moffat

#28. It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

James Forrestal

#29. I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the fact that so many people - practically over the spectrum of the Christian world - are responding to my writing.

Henri Nouwen

#30. The more you win a debate intellectually, the more you lose it practically.

Daya Kudari

#31. I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

Paul Dirac

#32. I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#33. There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish; it only takes you to make you".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#34. Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.

George Edward Woodberry

#35. ... but because they felt the neighborhood was safer than the one around Columbia, the medical campus of which was so far north that it was practically an annex of the Bronx

Michelle Au

#36. When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

Ernie J Zelinski

#37. How many people cdan play a piano? . . . Practically anybody who has ever been a child. It is a standard parlor accomplishment.

Dorothy West

#38. A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.

Nadine Labaki

#39. I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

Malorie Blackman

#40. But in practice the great difference between the medieval ethics and ours is that ours concentrate attention on the sins which are the sins of the ignorant, and practically deny that the sins which are the sins of the educated are sins at all.

G.K. Chesterton

#41. Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact.

John Grisham

#42. Oh, my, it's awfully quiet back there," Jackal remarked after several miles had passed and nothing had happened. Of course, my blood brother took personal offence to peace and quiet, and I could practically hear the grin in his voice. "Are you two making out?

Julie Kagawa

#43. This blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

David Levithan

#44. A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.

George Gissing

#45. As teachers, we can literally overcome the negative influence of a community. How many other professionals can say that? That's practically a superpower.

Katie Novak

#46. Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

Ludivine Sagnier

#47. Maybe his shifting isn't just physical. Maybe it applies to his feelings too, because I don't see how he can walk around eating candy at Luna Park as we take my English teacher practically hostage.

Zoraida Cordova

#48. You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

John C. Maxwell

#49. Okay," she says. "Trees, stars, oceans. Fine." "And the sun, Jude." "Oh, all right," she says, totally surprising me. "I'll give you the sun." "I practically have everything now!" I say. "You're crazy!

Jandy Nelson

#50. Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

Irving Babbitt

#51. I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.

Anna Kendrick

#52. So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

John Ratzenberger

#53. This is so stupid it practically drools.

David Foster Wallace

#54. Who the fuck are you?" I said, practically screaming at him. I was not going to take being set up lying down.

Darynda Jones

#55. We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.

David Bohm

#56. He'd been going out with his right hand for so long they were practically common law spouses.

Avery Flynn

#57. Goat face is a horrible insult. My face is practically perfect in every way. In fact, from now on I demand to be called Beautiful Bryan.

Daniel Bryan

#58. Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second?

Ben Monopoli

#59. It's just funny to see him so territorial over a woman. He's practically growling at any man who talks to you, even the married ones. He's never even brought a woman around so I hope you don't mind me saying that it's a little entertaining." Before

Katie Reus

#60. It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

Ian McDiarmid

#61. The global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

James Hansen

#62. If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;
and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached
to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.

Sun Tzu

#63. The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Peter McWilliams

#64. Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

John Derbyshire

#65. I like women. I want them to feel good. It's practically been my mission in life.

Karen Marie Moning

#66. Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

Brock Yates

#67. Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Nancy Gibbs

#68. His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, before dealing practically with his embarrassments, to extract from most of them a small tribute of amusement.
("The Triumph Of The Night")

Edith Wharton

#69. It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

Rod Stryker

#70. I was practically The Boy in the Bubble; all my autoimmune responses stripped bare by chemical representations of pine forests and summer meadows.

Matthew Crow

#71. Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities
God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.

Henry Parry Liddon

#72. It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.

Ravi Zacharias

#73. I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

Steven Bochco

#74. I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

#75. Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

John Ruskin

#76. How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.

Richard Schmid

#77. Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.

Peter Drucker

#78. It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

May Sarton

#79. I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

Alberto Juantorena

#80. He's practically stalking me. He just won't let it go. He's just being ... he's being a jackass with a flaky jackass crust and a delicious jackass filling."
"So he's jackass pie?

Molly Harper

#81. It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.

Samuel Butler

#82. I give her back an honest-to-goodness smile, the old Ben Parish smile, the one that got me practically everything I wanted. Well, not practically; I'm being modest.

Rick Yancey

#83. Pretty doll," rasped the dark haired vampire as he went about behind her, and she could feel his ravenous hunger practically radiating off him.

J.E. Keep

#84. Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

Loni Anderson

#85. Brighton's not exactly a big place," Caulter says. "Everyone knows everything about everyone. It's practically incestuous.

Sabrina Paige

#86. Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I wasn't acting from the motives people usually work from: to feel good, to have fun, to make something last.

Joan Juliet Buck

#87. The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

Timothy Noah

#88. For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

Howard Nemerov

#89. The new information technology ... Internet and e-mail ... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Peter Drucker

#90. Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

Van Jones

#91. I sell Damascus steel, folded and intricate, dug up from the earth, practically useless, desirable only to lovers of the arcane, the beautiful, the old. No

Catherynne M Valente

#92. I don't think Trout has ever been out of the country," Rosewater went on. "My God - he writes about Earthlings all the time, and they're all Americans. Practically nobody on Earth is an American.

Kurt Vonnegut

#93. You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you,.

Chaim Potok

#94. Look around at the countries of Europe, and you'll find that practically all of them have pasts that are just as tragic as Ireland's, yet the people seem able to find some creative way at moving into the future.

Jennifer Johnston

#95. Then I tried to get them in a little intelligent conversation, but it was practically impossible.

J.D. Salinger

#96. As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

George Weinberg

#97. Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#98. I'd put myself into this situation - surrounded by people, looking like hell, and so obviously unhappy that I was practically waving a pity me banner, but still not willing to talk to anyone.

Santino Hassell

#99. A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

Harry Callahan

#100. You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Hector Elizondo