Slightly Quotes

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The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be… — Lewis Thomas
For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook… — James M. Barrie
I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much. — Stephen King
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have… — Robert Anton Wilson
Well?" Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?" Harry considered it for a moment. "Wet," he said truthfully. Ron made a noise… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you… — Milan Kundera
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages… — Cornelia Funke
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude.… — Katharine Hepburn
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture.… — Nick Flynn
Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters… — John Searle
Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you gain a perspective you had considered before.… — Jim Butcher
All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may… — James M. Barrie
Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing… — Jim Carroll
It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very… — Benjamin Hoff
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me… — Augusten Burroughs
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the… — E. M. Forster
History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. — Kim Stanley Robinson

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