Slightly Quotes
793 quotes by 672 authors
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Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship…
— Jessie Bernard
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As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,
— Trevor Baylis
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It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.
— Prince Andrew
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I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.
— James Galway
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The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.
— Theodore Zeldin
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The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of…
— Fred Brooks
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Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
— Thomas Boswell
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I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view…
— Robbie Coltraine
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If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will…
— Antonya Nelson
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Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular…
— Gerald Durrell
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My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot…
— Julian Cope
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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
— Linus Torvalds
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I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical.…
— Anne Desclos
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The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest…
— Andrew Bacevich
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I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated,…
— Pal Benko
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If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must…
— Nora Ephron
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But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only…
— Robert Frost
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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us…
— Pema Chodron
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Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd…
— Margaret Maron
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