Slightly Quotes
793 quotes by 650 authors
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You can swim (uncomfortably) in water at a temperature slightly above freezing; a tiny drop in temperature-or a miracle-allows you to walk on water.
— Craig F. Bohren
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The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average…
— Raymond Chandler
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Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,
— William Zinsser
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I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.
— S. J. Perelman
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I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.
— Daniel Tosh
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Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the…
— Mark Kurlansky
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What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine -…
— Trip Hawkins
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Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness…
— Jeff Belanger
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Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.
— Mark Gatiss
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I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I…
— Duffy
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We're all equals as men, except I'm slightly more equal because I'm still alive and you're dead.
— Sarge
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No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and…
— Emily St. John Mandel
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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
— Julian Casablancas
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Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above — not where you want to be.
— Scott Jurek
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I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'
— Bo Burnham
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We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of…
— Leszek Kolakowski
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After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want…
— Howard Metzenbaum
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In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the…
— Carl Sagan
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The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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