Casual Quotes - Page 15

• When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.

  Bill Nighy

  Clothes, Enthusiasm, Clothings

  "Bill Nighy: five things I know about style" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Heaven

  1853 Poems: A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.171-4.

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• You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

  Brendan Coyle

  Humorous, Actors, Audience

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• Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Secret, Disease, Parentheses

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• Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings.

  James Hollis

  Destiny, Understanding, Desire

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• Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Simple, Choices

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• For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Country, War, Home

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

  William Julius Wilson

  Attitude, Opportunity, People

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• I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Heart, Two

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• If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

  Celia Imrie

  Home, Keys, Doors

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• I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Trying, Transition, Dresses

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• My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

  Nina Garcia

  Real, Done, Want

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• I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

  Mitch Albom

  Passionate, Appreciative, Reader

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• History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

  Scott Anderson

  Butterfly, Wings, Decision

  Scott Anderson (2013). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.89, Anchor

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• For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Grief, Insomnia, Men

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• Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Clothes, Ties, People

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• Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Way, Passengers

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.686, Delphi Classics

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• I really like those days when I can just wear sweatpants, to be honest. And when I'm actually going to go somewhere, I like to be comfortable and casual. If I'm doing something a little more fashion, going a little bit further. It's about expressing yourself and being comfortable and wearing what you like.

  Leighton Meester

  Fashion, Littles, Honest

  "Leighton Meester on Going Country, What She Learned From Gwyneth, and Her Surprising Love of Sweatpants". Interview with Lindsay Miller, www.popsugar.com. January 5, 2011.

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religion, Incidents, Should

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.71

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• For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

  Aldous Huxley

  Eye, Speech, Saws

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• The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Past, Historical

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.109

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• Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds!
  Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

  Samuel Johnson

  Crowds, Virtue, Glory

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.367

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• Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Sibling, Kids

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• The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.

  Patricia Hampl

  Real, Journey, Boredom

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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