Slightly Less Quotes

33 quotes by 30 authors

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
The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hairâ€™s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly… — Molly Ivins
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
If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence,… — Sumner Slichter
The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there. — Jon Foreman
Itâ€™s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would,… — Gordon Dahlquist
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary. — Benedict Cumberbatch
To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football… — Fletcher Knebel
I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester. — S. J. Perelman
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
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that… — Neal Stephenson
The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the… — Roald Dahl
Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in… — William Goldman
He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see what was going… — Rick Riordan
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining… — Samuel Beckett
...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful deathâ€”or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of… — Eoin Colfer
There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.â€ ~Deidre Oâ€™Neill, known as Edde (p. 213) — Paulo Coelho

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