(379 quotes found)
“Away, slight man!”
William Shakespeare
“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”
Lewis Thomas
“You've gotta be slightly stupid.”
Joe Strummer
“Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?”
Charles Horton Cooley
“He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause”
Portuguese Proverb
“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”
Carol Gilligan
“Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for”
Amos Tversky
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection”
Charles Darwin
“I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.”
Alec Waugh
“Slight not what is near, while aiming at what is far.”
Euripides
