#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

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#colors #granite #i #lighter #like

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

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend

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

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want. ↗

— Eleanor Mondale

#being #camera #fun #i #i can

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

You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#being #break #feel #got #heavier

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#almost #dramatic #fact #find #funny