Slightest Quotes

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?