#slight

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#complaint #early #entire #evening #heels

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#acting #became #businessman #came #dreams

It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include. ↗

— John Sexton

#camera #elements #find #glass #green

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#aware #body #come #every #every time

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ↗

— William Styron

#exhausted #experiences #great #great book #leave

A slighted woman knows no bounds. ↗

— John Vanbrugh

#knows #slighted #woman

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #beautiful #billie #billie holiday #cool

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#civilization #climate #daily #dwellers #enjoyment

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#awareness #birth #brain #damaged #disability