Mildly Quotes
79 quotes by 68 authors
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(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought…
— Peter Carey
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It isn't deep," the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed.…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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You are in favour of the common people?†said Dragon mildly. The common people?†said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich…
— Terry Pratchett
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The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Do you think you could put that boot back on?" he added mildly. "The window can only let in a limited ammount of fresh air…
— John Flanagan
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Where is he? Bridgerton!" he bellowed. Three chestnut heads swiveled in his direction. Simon stomped across the grass, murder in his eyes. "I meant the…
— Julia Quinn
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Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people…
— Mary Roach
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She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
— Christopher Hitchens
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I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing…
— Warren Ellis
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it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,†Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future
— Meg Cabot
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Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe…
— John Gardner
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Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look,…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and…
— Cassandra Clare
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Edward helped, making faces every so often at the raw ingredients-human food was mildly repulsive to him.
— Stephenie Meyer
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Relax? he repeated incredulously. You're going to fight an armored knight with nothing more than a bow and you tell me to relax? I'll have…
— John Flanagan
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He gave her his best smile. His best I-almost-died-so-how-can-you-deny-me smile. Or at least that’s how he hoped it appeared. The truth was, he wasn’t a…
— Julia Quinn
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I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.
— Derek Landy
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So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your…
— Cornelius Van Til
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So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if…
— Erin Morgenstern
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