Top 470 Mostly Quotes

‘MacGruber’ came to life mostly because we just liked saying ‘MacGyver.’ ‘MacGyver’ this. ‘MacGyver’ that. It’s a great word.
Jorma Taccone
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
Michael Pollan
The U.S. and China need to take steps – mostly individually, sometimes together – that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.
Henry Paulson
I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands – me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.
Mike Myers
Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as ‘free’ or ‘mostly free’ increased by about 50%.
George P. Shultz
If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don’t know whether you feel like doing impulse control.
Abhijit Banerjee
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
Jonathan Ames
What I’ve learned mostly is that you have to be ruthless and you have to be consistent and you have to fit every day the culture of the club to create a winning mentality.
Mikel Arteta
The band I’ve played with for 10 or 12 years now, we’ve been all over, but we mostly play in LA.
Harry Dean Stanton
Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.
Mark Vonnegut
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things – the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
Geraldine Brooks
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
Anthony Doerr
But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
Jim Coleman
Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
Alan Cumming
What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is also bringing about disruptive change that is intensifying insecurity and may indeed lead to large-scale labor displacement.
Guy Standing
I eat mostly organic, but I love macaroni and cheese, Mexican food, and egg-and-cheese croissants. So when I indulge, I eat protein and veggies for the rest of the day. It really is all about moderation and balance.
Marisa Miller
My films have mostly been about the rise of desire as the discovery of oneself.
Celine Sciamma
I’m curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.
Agnes Varda
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
Nicholas Kristof
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson
I don’t really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond.
Will Estes
Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
Gary Wolf
Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads – I just write it.
Kara Swisher
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it’s as close as I come to telling how I do it.
Howard Nemerov
TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it lo

TV, it’s a director’s medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you’re standing so they can do the lighting, that’s what I don’t like.
Janeane Garofalo
Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don’t. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It’s mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel.
Woody Harrelson
These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
William Henry Ashley
We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.
Nancy Johnson
My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.
Jessica Sanchez
I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don’t be afraid, but just enjoy the day you’re in. Really make the most of it.
Amy Grant
I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
Barry McGee
The characters I’ve played have been mostly violent, and I’m so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching ‘Fireman Sam’ with my three-year-old son Louis.
Tom Hardy
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Tom Waits
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted ‘Most Literary Boy.’ I can assure you I was not voted ‘Mostly Likely to Succeed.’ I was voted ‘Most Musical Boy.’ And the music led to the poetry.
Robert Pinsky
I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
Joseph Gatt
I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that’s in my heart.
Eduardo Saverin
I shop online mostly. I like to shop from the comfort of my own home without a sales person bugging me.
Brad Goreski
One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling, and I really try to think about what people want.
Ashton Kutcher
I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion – like cheesecake or blackouts.
Nadia Giosia
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all ‘bottom line’ editors; everything depends on the money.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.
Bernhard Goetz
Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.
Anthony Goldbloom
All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.
John Muir
The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I’m a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.
Eleanor Mondale
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.
Maya Angelou
In Bollywood, it is common for shoots to have unexpected delays and go well into the night, but shoot schedules in the South are mostly wrapped up by evening, unless absolutely required.
Abhimanyu Singh
My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.
Rosie O’Donnell
My family was mostly unemployed working class.
Noam Chomsky
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He’s co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age.
Tim Harford
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
Stephen Malkmus
I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
Sam Shepard
I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.
Khaled Hosseini
I’m into clothes, but in a way that’s related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love to go to vintage stores, but mostly it’s stuff that I don’t have anywhere to wear… I don’t have the life that goes with the clothes.
Maureen Dowd
There was a time when I wasn’t working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing ‘Fallout 3,’ a very fun game.
Matthew Perry
I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
George R. R. Martin
I had a wife and children. I was mostly working in pain

I had a wife and children. I was mostly working in painting and decorating and then taking the occasional acting job as they came along. At that stage in your life you have to think about your priorities. It looked like I was going to have to take the building more seriously and give up acting.
Charley Boorman
The weird thing about the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop is that people come on vacation, and they bring stuff here to sell. They come here to see what we’ll give them for it. Mostly, it’s people from out of town.
Rick Harrison