#slight

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

#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#actually #being #believe #between #fine

I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done. ↗

— Bill Nighy

#always #anything #around #because #done

I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#come #conditions #down #especially #expect

We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs. ↗

— the gaslight anthem

#gaslight-anthem #rock-music #song #music

To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#recovery

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#below #belt #consists #hit #knowing

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

#bodies #emerging #exposed #i #long

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all. ↗

— Judi Dench

#change #change things #control #day #ever

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#change #general #half #head #nods