#lightly

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#different #either #french #french language #great

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

#complexion #conquest #different #earth #flatter

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#disappointing #even #generally #great #great people

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#find #i #impressionists #really #slightly

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 of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth. ↗

— Julian Cope

#am #appear #away #because #create

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#drink #fact #guys #i #i think

Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#bit #bored #bother #boy #cause

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#bear #consider #i #just #myself

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#book #harden #into #lightly #look

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?' ↗

— Lena Headey

#based #come #experts #fantasy #head