#almost

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#almost #been #biggest #club #cups

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#almost #east #fighting #history #i

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#almost #area #budget #cut #defense

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#bug #detect #impossible #installed #well

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#dolly #i #like #manager #me

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#comfortable #fun #having #job #like

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. ↗

— Tom Peters

#almost #comes #design #improvement #layout

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. ↗

— Petrarch

#almost #begin #bounds #concerning #differ

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#another #half-hour #nothing #putting #same