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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #slight




I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.


Fay Wray


#even #fell #get #his #i

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.


Charles Lyell


#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.


Simon van der Meer


#accelerator #amateur #approach #asset #been

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.


Lord Chesterfield


#any #distrust #extremely #love #love you

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.


David Millar


#because #blamed #bother #came #cell

I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring.


Sienna Miller


#destructive #find #i #love #mad

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.


Wilson Mizner


#because #becomes #conceived #continues #contradicts

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.


Barack Obama


#care #care costs #costs #could #deficit

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