#lightly

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. ↗

— Max Nordau

#despised #does #everyone #hold #i

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. ↗

— Sophocles

#lightly #live #unthinkingly

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me. ↗

— Robert Smith

#every #fashion #grow #hair #i

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. ↗

— Robert Smith

#clever #enough #few #good #idea

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#allegorical #apparently #been #expression #hold

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

#creates #desire #disturbance #i #lightly

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#been #blow #clear #explain #forgotten

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along. ↗

— Wes Borland

#coming #done #ever #feel #hardest

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were. ↗

— Julie Christie

#defined #down #films #going #i

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#bear #consider #i #just #myself