#lightly

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. ↗

— James D. Watson

#significant #slightly #something #underemployed #you

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

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#children #comedy #got #haven #humour

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

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#condescending #elemental #everybody #level #loves

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #lightly #paint #picture #seriously

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#any #each #every #fact #giving

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. ↗

— John Buchan

#deeply #disliked #emotion #felt #lightly

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#different #different way #enrich #life #make

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#career #early #i #intellectuals #make