#almost

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about. ↗

— David Amram

#almost #atmosphere #audience #audience members #church

The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#beyond #every #fact #founding #government

Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#care #down #i #implying #knocking

Tell me again about the girl whose hands have no color. Whose hands are completely white. This time make them damned, or untouched, or have her open a red umbrella or point at some maple leaves and damned near cry. Those hands. As freakish goes, I wish I had a tail. Maybe then you’d know how much I like you. It shakes me through, damn through. It shakes me. When she carries a peacock feather. When she touches her neck or thighs. You’re a person. It’s not so bad. You have hands. You are a person with hands to hold things. Things you like. Tremendous things. Tell me what you will hold today. I know there is room for everything. There is no need to be ceremonious. Tell what gets let go. ↗

— Rebecca Wadlinger

#beauty #everybody-has-hands-almost #girl #grasp #hands

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#anything #caricature #does #fun #into

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #destiny #feels #obey #passive

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. ↗

— Alan Brien

#almost #does #done #drainage #every

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out. ↗

— Jon Brion

#artist #basically #before #comes #going

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#became #buy #did #first #first thing