#lighter

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ↗

— Voltaire

#banished #beauties #compliment #didactic #flowery

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#felt #i #i feel #lighter #maybe

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#certain #i #just #keep #lighter

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#descriptive #dialogue #lighter #more #much

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#between #expose #help #i #i can

Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#been #being #come #dark #dark side

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#bit #costume #could #floating #hardly

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#fades #feeling #larger #lighter #never

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#being #complete #definition #everything #feel