Top 100 Pretty Much Quotes
#1. I love 'Modern Family; I think that is a great show. I don't get to watch tons of TV, but when I do, 'Sons of Anarchy' is pretty much the number one, and 'Modern Family' is one of my favorites.
Ashley Tisdale
#2. I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?"
Ian Astbury
#3. My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.
Richard Dawkins
#4. Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
Jim Henson
#5. While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising.
Douglas Rushkoff
#6. To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#7. Well, strategy. The competitive landscape. Morale. The dynamics of the executive team. Top performers. Bottom performers. Customer satisfaction. Pretty much everything that has a long-term impact on the success of the company. Stuff you just can't cover in weekly or monthly meetings.
Patrick Lencioni
#8. I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all.
Terry Crews
#9. I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.
Justin Cronin
#10. I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.
Paul Van Dyk
#11. I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
Kevin Mitnick
#12. I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games.
Albert Camus
#13. It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.
Phil Ehart
#15. I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.
Ani DiFranco
#16. What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say looking back. There is the possibility of balance.Unbearable burden that the world somehow bare with a certain grace.
Barbara Kingsolver
#17. I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.
Hilary Swank
#18. I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
Nick Cave
#19. It was pretty much the male code not to let your friends have too much fun if there was any chance you could throw a wrench in their good times.
Susan Andersen
#20. The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s the business world was already trying to find ways to beat it back.
Noam Chomsky
#21. People are perverts...that's pretty much been the basis of my career anyway.
David Fincher
#22. You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.
Cain Velasquez
#23. I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.
Alain De Botton
#24. It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.
Michel Houellebecq
#25. It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists ... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
Brian McKnight
#26. The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.
Jerry Only
#27. I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime.
Claire Danes
#28. We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
Ian Somerhalder
#29. I'm still vegetarian - no, pescatarian, because I eat fish. I eat pretty much vegan at home, but when I'm on the road, I'm a bit more flexible. That was the kind of thing I learned as I got older - being flexible with it and listening to my body.
Amanda Crew
#30. I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.
Caroline B. Cooney
#32. It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in - that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
Bam Margera
#33. If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.
Ernie Harwell
#34. Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.
Giada De Laurentiis
#35. If you can't lead and you can't deliver, then your own personal political philosophy is pretty much irrelevant, there have been far too many occasions over the last four years where the House has been ineffective.
Rich Nugent
#36. I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.
Sheila E.
#37. Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.
Antonin Scalia
#38. Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.
Sarah Vowell
#39. What?" says Kosgrov. "You think I won't lay you out just because you're stuck in a wheelchair, funny boy?" "Yeah," I say. "Pretty much." Turns out I'm pretty wrong.
James Patterson
#40. The people on the streets just say 'hi' and let me walk on. They take relatively few photos, and those that do are tourists. Munich natives are relatively relaxed. They pretty much leave me in peace and I think that's very good. The Bavarian mentality fits very well to me.
Manuel Neuer
#41. Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.
Autre Ne Veut
#42. Any woman who doesn't have a little bit of whore in her is pretty much a dried up stick.
D.H. Lawrence
#43. I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.
Martin Freeman
#44. I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.
Jael McHenry
#45. You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That's pretty much how it goes.
Sixto Rodriguez
#46. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time
Rick Riordan
#47. I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
Harlan Coben
#48. I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.
David R. Ellis
#49. Not planned... Hoped for maybe, but not planned. I'm a guy. I pretty much always think sex might be an option.
Heather Thurmeier
#50. I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.
Michael Rosenbaum
#51. Unfortunately, I also hated him, absolute loathed him. Ah, well, most of the time. Sometimes. Pretty much whenever I gazed upon his perfection and started lusting after him. Yeah, that's when I hated him.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#52. I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.
George Harrison
#53. But it's not healthy!" replied the Hag. "A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?"
"You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever."
"Yeah," sighed the Maid, "but I bet a tenner I can make you cry in half a minute.
Kate Griffin
#54. In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the country was eager to do that. The Republicans had, in the view of many of us, pretty much disgraced themselves at home and abroad for eight years.
George Will
#55. I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.
Joel Kinnaman
#56. Pretending/imagining is pretty much the real thing if you do it well enough (if not better)
Myself
#57. I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
Larry David
#58. Once again, to the ladies out there - here's a fact for you: Men pretty much have sex on the brain twenty-four-seven. The exact figure is like every 5.2 seconds or some shit like that.
Emma Chase
#59. By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.
Michael Bergin
#60. And when she died, she was lonely, and scared, and she missed her books. And she pretty much just got up and walked back to her house an' started readin'.
Tim Byrd
#61. And while in the olden days, disgruntled readers suffered pretty much in silence, now there's Amazon. The last thing you want are myriad scathing reviews that potential readers find helpful.
Lisa Cron
#62. I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
Bela Lugosi
#63. Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#64. Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.
Dolly Parton
#65. I only say this because a lot of people seem to think that if you're a musician you want to be a celebrity. But most musicians in the world aren't celebrities, and pretty much everything about the concept of 'celebrity' is a complete load of bollocks anyhow.
Brooke Fraser
#66. Girls are just girls. You fuck one, you've fucked them all. Some are a little more up for adventure, some are better cock suckers - crude but true - and some are screamers. But really? They're all pretty much the same.
Monica Murphy
#67. Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.
John Cena
#68. I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.
Todd Rundgren
#69. In high school, if you can find a girl who will kiss you and maybe let you touch her breasts and a guy who likes the same movies as you, your world is pretty much complete.
Jonathan Tropper
#70. My live sound does not work in the studio, which is a completely different animal. Every little thing is detrimental to the sound. And if someone moves a mic, you've lost it. It's pretty much a case of 'lock the door and set up a police line.'
James Hetfield
#72. I can't believe I just asked you for sex. What kind of guy does that?" I swallow. "Pretty much all of them.
Colleen Hoover
#73. When I am in the country, I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town It is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.
Jane Austen
#74. I think there's an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much - I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.
Caroll Spinney
#75. When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.
Richard House
#76. And whenever he asked himself that one question - what wouldn't he do for the welfare of his children - the answer was always the same. There was pretty much nothing he wouldn't do for his children's sake.
Bobby Adair
#77. I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.
Banks
#78. It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#79. I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
Ang Lee
#80. I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
Ed Westwick
#81. I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!
Chris Roberson
#82. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I ...
David Foster Wallace
#83. I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.
Alan Jackson
#84. Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
David Lynch
#85. Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'
Carly Rae Jepsen
#86. Lack of understanding seemed as valuable to God as understanding. It required man to dip into the black hole of faith. But dipping into the hole was pretty much like walking through the dungeon at times.
Ted Dekker
#87. We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything ... so who knows what the future will hold?
Rostam Batmanglij
#88. I got bullied in high school. A lot of girls were so mean to me because their boyfriends wanted to hang out with me and my girls, so they pretty much bullied me to the point where I was crying at night.
Nicole Polizzi
#89. Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.
Caprice Crane
#90. In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.
Sarah Polley
#91. I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.
Shaquille O'Neal
#93. I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
Denis Leary
#94. Despicable rabble," however, pretty much summed up George Washington's opinion of the troops when he arrived in Cambridge in July. In a letter to his brother John, the new commander in chief grumbled, "I found a mixed multitude of People here, under very little discipline, order, or Government.
Sarah Vowell
#95. A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain - and the man's brain did not reject it. That pretty much confirms what women have been saying about men.
Jay Leno
#96. You know, it's tragic how blind we can be to the really good guys because they don't fit this ideal image of what we think we want, and when we do figure it out, it's pretty much too late.
Jaycee DeLorenzo
#97. Wow," said George. "I imagined the demon realms were fearsome and terrifying, but seems like it was pretty much nonstop nom nom nom.
Cassandra Clare
#98. When I got the phone call that I was told I was Peter Pan, I freaked out, because I was like, 'Wow! How does that happen?' But pretty much, from there on, everyone's been so lovely.
Levi Miller
#99. I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
Gary Lucas
#100. Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on
that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.
George Eliot
