Slightly Quotes
793 quotes by 672 authors
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An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools,…
— Marc Andreessen
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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good,…
— Michael Cunningham
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In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient…
— Charles Lyell
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Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics…
— Brian Greene
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According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting…
— Seth Lloyd
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
— Larry Wall
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Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and…
— Coco Chanel
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I love black leggings with cowboy (I mean cowgirl!) boots, and other-slightly less trendy-things like my boys' Wrangler jeans and my husband's worn deerskin work…
— Ree Drummond
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I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.
— Clive Anderson
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The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that…
— Isaac Mizrahi
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Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly…
— Norton Juster
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Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked…
— Jarvis Cocker
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There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started.…
— Billy Collins
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I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
— Billy Collins
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I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s…
— Florence Welch
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Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and…
— Laura Miller
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Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going…
— Lev Yilmaz
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