Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Actually bizarrely in America I get more appreciation from the odd unusual stuff I've done almost because I'm not if you like famous in America as I am in England.

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

Yeah I love being famous. It's almost like being white y'know?

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment and the next thing you know you're onstage performing for 60 000 people then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family but they're also building an image and identity for themselves which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal dependable good friend. Nothing.

Often we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades because elected leaders fail to deliver.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

In Torch Song I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure which also colors how you react to doing other things.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I have been blessed in many ways and one of those is to have been born in Africa for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy reading about it talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

In almost everything experience is more valuable than precept.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.