Slightly Quotes
793 quotes by 650 authors
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Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but…
— Stanley Bing
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from…
— Teju Cole
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Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to…
— Julian Barnes
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Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only…
— Frank Stella
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An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched…
— Yuri Gagarin
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Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to…
— Dave McKean
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone…
— William Faulkner
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It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just…
— Steve Carlton
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Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'
— Desmond Tutu
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Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the…
— H E Bates
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I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never…
— Bill Nighy
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in…
— Ugo Betti
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I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like…
— Keith Carter
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In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than…
— Unknown Author
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From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are…
— Dawna Markova
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I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn…
— Matt Walsh
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I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking…
— Martin Gore
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The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country,…
— Danny Wallace
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Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in…
— Lucille Roybal-Allard
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