#almost

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk. ↗

— Jacqueline du Pre

#drunk #feel #herbs #intense #made

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alight #almost #become #books #city

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#great #love #self #to love

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on. ↗

— Anne Rice

#any #fascinated #get #hands #i

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#almost #begun #cooled #disappear #eager

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#been #best #best way #depths #experience

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#been #citizens #dedicated #elderly #our

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it. ↗

— Darius Rucker

#almost #dollars #golf #golf tournament #junior

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#award #comfortable #find #i #place

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy. ↗

— Jil Sander

#also #around #century #cloud #diverse