#lightly

So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#i do #laying #lightly #off #people

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#benign #certain #cruel #disregard #entirely

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#am #awry #because #been #between

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach. ↗

— Brian Eno

#presents #reach #set #situation #slightly

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#complete #family #friends #must #natural

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. ↗

— William Whitelaw

#clever #less #more #never #slightly

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#day #i #imagine #journalists #long

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#character #comes #comic #even #failure

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#access #any #art #artist #authentic

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#going #i #i think #lightly #matured