#nonchalance

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#expertise #nonchalance #business

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought. ↗

— Baldassare Castiglione

#nonchalance #sprezzatura #design

The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#nonchalance #spontaniety #freedom

What's the matter with her? [Jasper] asked Griffin. Griffin shook his head. 'Nothing. She's just two personas struggling for dominance in one body.' [Jasper] ... Poor little thing. ↗

— Kady Cross

#nonchalance #split-personality #humor

What did you say, Arthur?" "I said, how the hell did you get here?" "I was a row of dots flowing randomly through the Universe. Have you met Thor? He makes thunder." "Hello," said Arthur. "I expect that must be very interesting." "Hi," said Thor, "it is. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #nonchalance #humor

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#air #down #down to earth #earth #else

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#life #live #living #making #making a living

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#intensified #jazz #jazz music #music #nonchalance

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#blasé #new-york-city #nonchalance #funny