Quotes with casual

  • That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
  • As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
  • Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
  • After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
  • The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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  • Rohinton Mistry After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
    Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 758
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Oscar Wilde As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William S. Burroughs Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Dr. James C. Dobson Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
    Dr. James C. Dobson
    American evangelical Christian author
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  • W. H. Auden Criticism should be a casual conversation.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Luigi Pirandello It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Matthew Arnold Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Ben Barnes That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Virginia Woolf What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Brendan Coyle You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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