Lightness Quotes · Page 2

I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It…

— Joan Didion

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or…

— Joel Kinnaman

Redheads have a lightness, a craziness, a kookiness. Think of Lucille Ball.

— Chita Rivera

Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I…

— Alber Elbaz

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

— Richard Serra

“We have been together for 40 years, married for 36. There have been three times in our relationship when we were unable…

— Joyce Vissell

I need the lightness of children's lit.

— Jesmyn Ward

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

— Joel Edgerton

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

— Sara Genn

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

— Peter Capaldi

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably…

— Bayard Taylor

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

— Robert Fulghum

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

— Milan Kundera

The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.

— Lewis H. Lapham

I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light.…

— Alicia Silverstone

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never…

— Martha Stewart

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze…

— William Shakespeare

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

— Joan Lunden

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of…

— Rita Mae Brown

Simplify, then add lightness.

— Colin Chapman

'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in…

— Charles Dickens

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever…

— Milan Kundera

Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.

— Frank Thiess