Slightly Quotes

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Good, True, Someone

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
Will Smith

Talent, Above, Average

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
Mike Tyson

Love, Happen, Themselves

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
Barack Obama

Health, Care, Important

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley

Pain, Laughter, Human

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
Coco Chanel

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
Bette Davis

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson

Worth, Takes, Believes

Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. Salinger

Mothers, Insane

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger

Artist, Unhappy, Worst

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Andres Segovia

Music, Poetry, Forward

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
John Cleese

Good, Long, Said

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
Molly Ivins

Pregnant, Worse, Paranoid

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Often, Four

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
Tori Amos

Different, Sometimes, Order

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
Doug Coupland

Family, Same, Everybody

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.
Christopher Hitchens

Country, Wrong, Born

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard

Work, Freedom, Working

And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.
Daniel Radcliffe

Love, Sexy, She

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.
Christopher Hitchens

Nice, Different, Big

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
Brian Eno

Situation, Beyond, Reach

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.
Gordon Ramsay

Passion, May, Cooking

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad

Different, Pretty, Away

As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.
Jeff Bridges

Same, Others, Team

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.
Madeleine Albright

Time, Long, Different

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
Ann Coulter

American, While, Security

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.
Robert Smith

Person, Fashion, Sick

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Dangerous, Truths, Distorted

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
Thor Heyerdahl

Peace, Great, War

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Different, Sense, Everyone

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