Famous quotes containing the word slightly:
“The great disadvantage, and advantage, of the small urban bourgeois is his limited outlook. He sees the world as a middle- class world, and everything outside these limits is either laughable or slightly wicked.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
“Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestonechildhoods end. We have left a safe place and cant go home again. We have moved into a world where life isnt fair, where life is rarely what it should be.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
“Now wait a minute. You listen to me. Im an advertising man, not a red herring. Ive got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex- wives, and several bartenders dependent on me. And I dont intend to disappoint them all by getting myself slightly killed.”
—Ernest Lehman (b.1920)