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  • Casually mount the sounds and straddle the colors while you transcend listening and surpass watching. -- Hongzhi Zhengjue
  • Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in. -- Ellen Goodman
  • Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. -- Tori Amos
  • Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. -- Francis Bacon
  • Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism. -- Tom Stoppard
  • We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights. -- Lisa Kudrow
  • Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet. -- Eric S. Raymond
  • It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel. -- Graydon Carter
  • I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together. -- Barry McGuigan
  • My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. -- James Tobin
  • Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated. -- Roger Ebert
  • I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting. -- Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. -- Donald Knuth
  • I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I. -- Claudette Colbert
  • Here's my tip: Have your production hire the best hair stylists on the planet to do your films and commercials, then casually hint about how great it would be to get a trim during lunch break. -- Mark Romanek
  • Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?' -- Natasha Henstridge
  • Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape. -- Preet Bharara
  • When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good. -- Josh Homme
  • In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite. -- Philip Yancey
  • Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting. -- Jack Antonoff
  • California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the casually giddy lightness of her talk-singing - familiar from her slizzered 2010 cameo on Far East Movement's smash 'Like a G6,' and around-the way-girl frisky like 1980s Latin freestyle. -- Chuck Eddy
  • If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night. -- Drew Barrymore
  • There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. -- Louis C. K.
  • You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that. -- Taylor Swift
  • When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually. -- Brandi Carlile
  • If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, but they know more and learn more than we would ever have thought. Every single minute is incredibly full of thought and novelty. It's easy as adults to take for granted everything it took to arrive at the state where we are. -- Alison Gopnik
  • What happened casually remains - -- Ted Hughes
  • Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually. -- Kobayashi Issa
  • Hi," Piper said, as casually as she could. "We're back. -- Rick Riordan
  • How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle. -- Zig Ziglar
  • I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq. -- Charles B. Rangel
  • Luxury whose quiet swiftness bestowed a sense of power, wielded casually as some lesser god might do. -- Raymond Z. Gallun
  • Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. Itâ??s not something to be approached casually. -- Deborah Eisenberg
  • I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way. -- A. E. van Vogt
  • It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records. -- Jay Leno
  • trantulus casually roasted a marshmallow and reached out for it but the marshmallow commited sucide and dived into the flames. -- Rick Riordan
  • I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool. -- Jason Gedrick
  • Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity. -- Baroness Orczy
  • Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books. -- James Ellroy
  • I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • I don't understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I'm as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else. -- Thom Browne
  • I casually listen to mixes, but I don't know all the names of the tunes and the producers and stuff. It's hard to keep up with. -- Jamie Woon
  • Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words. -- Sophie Kinsella
  • Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot? -- Martha Rosler
  • There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. -- Adam Clymer
  • We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights -- Lisa Kudrow
  • She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves. -- Molly Ringle
  • Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery. -- John Burnside
  • There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise. -- Allie Brosh
  • I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie-shiny head, and I knew at any second I would break into hysterics. -- Laura Kreitzer
  • I find [Donald Trump] to be a vile human being - one that lies so often, so casually, and with such confidence, that fact-checkers actually cannot keep up. -- Chrissy Teigen
  • We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time. -- Chuck Klosterman
  • A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's heart can be seen. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip. -- Robert Ludlum
  • If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake. -- Brenda Shaughnessy
  • I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings towrd your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to motherfucker. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • I use my iPhone as an alarm, so when it goes off, I pick it up and casually scroll through whatever emails may have come in while I was asleep. -- Maulik Pancholy
  • One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words. -- Neil Genzlinger
  • It's been interesting, "Frostpine said casually. "I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best. -- Tamora Pierce
  • When someone entrusts their heart to you they are giving you a piece of their soul. You cannot treat the soul casually. You must protect, nurture and handle it with care. -- Iyanla Vanzant
  • Later that day when I passed the Admin lieutenant and the Sargeant standing by the Desk, I said casually, "I'm leaving too, Sarge.""Okay," he said, and I kept on walking. -- Edward Conlon
  • Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised. -- Nora Roberts
  • I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me. -- Claire Danes
  • When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time. -- Arthur Rubinstein
  • And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
  • I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe. -- Irwin Shaw
  • I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice. -- Jen Hatmaker
  • Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do. -- Victor Davis Hanson
  • Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount from people with whom they have strong emotional connections. -- Frederick Lenz
  • I do love listening to singles casually, but that moment, the thing I'm mining the singles for, is something that makes me dig deeper and find a layered offering that allows for discovery after discovery. -- Crowder
  • Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully. -- Roma Downey
  • Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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