#almost

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses. ↗

— Gaston Caperton

#courses #doubled #more #number #offer

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#any #anywhere #conquer #except #exist

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#almost #bluegrass #comedy #different #different styles

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ↗

— Carol Channing

#applause #duty #important #laughter #more

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here. ↗

— Perry Christie

#almost #coming #day #ended #here

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years. ↗

— James Denton

#affiliates #air #air time #almost #beat

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#any #bouquet #colors #did #downers

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #around #like #object #occupies

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#almost #civilized #constantly #depends #existence

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#areas #contain #depths #dig #especially