Casual Quotes - Page 3

• I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

  Natalie Portman

  Dresses, Sweatpants, My Friends

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• The dreary flies, lazy and casual,
  Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall.
  O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould
  Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.

  Allen Tate

  Wall, Heart, Lazy

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

  Emily Yoffe

  Husband, Hate, Kitchen

  "Inside Job". "Dear Prudence" with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. December 2, 2014.

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• I don't think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing... I think a lot of people are going to find simpler, more casual ways to enjoy an experience.

  Mario Batali

  Thinking, People, Dying

  Interview with Liz Biro, www.indystar.com. November 21, 2015.

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• Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

  Michael Stipe

  People, World, Radio

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• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  Warren E. Burger

  People, Electrician, Courtroom

  Warren E. Burger (1978). “Trial court advocacy: a checklist of comments”

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• Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.

  Michael Stipe

  Care, Radio, Easy

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• So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

  Michael Stipe

  People, Fans, World

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• Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.

  Jack McDevitt

  Stars, Laughter, Wine

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• I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

  Kate Voegele

  Rooms, Stage, Living Room

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 05, 2011.

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• Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Commitment, Following Christ, Practice

  FaceBook post by Dallin H Oaks from Jun 24, 2014

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• Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Fun, Looks, Snapshots

  "Fashion Police Star George Kotsiopoulos Talks Best Holiday and Winter Trends". Interview with Chrissy Lorenzo, www.justluxe.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Hate, Nba

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• For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date we dream of going home to watch television. We would prefer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit. We are almost constitutionally incapable of casual relationships.

  Sasha Cagen

  Dream, Home, Mean

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• Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Mean, Tunes, Needs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.

  Mark Steyn

  Taken, Past, Museums

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• Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

  Bill Keller

  Abet, May, Enough

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• World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

  Gore Vidal

  Events, World, Individual

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Taken, Ideas

  Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

  Douglas Coupland

  Knowing, Bored, Answers

  "Transience Is Now Permanence & the Fate of the Middle Classes (Doomed)". The Edge Annual Question — 2010: "How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?", www.edge.org. 2010.

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• The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs. Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.' The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence

  Cecil Roth

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Cecil Roth (1935). “A Bird's-eye View of Jewish History”, Cincinatti : Department of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations

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• In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Would Be, Shells

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.53, St. Martin's Press

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• We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.

  David Platt

  Waste, Christianity, Our Lives

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• The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

  Henry James

  Hands, Hints, Stories

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• Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Prayer, Breathing

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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