#nearly

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#day #i #imagine #journalists #long

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#amazing #film #got #i #i am

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. ↗

— James Wolcott

#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#coal #cycle #even #existing #fired

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#cloud #england #everyone #grieving #mourning

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.' ↗

— Eric Alterman

#baseball #chain #financial #folks #food

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#drama #family #forward #i #nearly

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#american citizen #backs #citizen #date #debt